tortuous
Meaning of tortuous
adjective
- Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.
- Oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) that ascend most rapidly and obliquely.
- Injurious; tortious.
Information about tortuous
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Hyphenation of tortuous
tor-tu-ous
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- tortuous is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
tortuous synonyms
Meaning Byzantine:
Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled
Meaning twisting:
twisting, twisty, winding, voluminous
Translation of tortuous
Words that rhyme with tortuous
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