Word Meanings - TORTUOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely. Skeat. Infortunate ascendent tortuous. Chaucer. --Tor"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Tor"tu*ous*ness, n. (more info) winding, fr. torquere,

Additional info about word: TORTUOUS

Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely. Skeat. Infortunate ascendent tortuous. Chaucer. --Tor"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Tor"tu*ous*ness, n. (more info) winding, fr. torquere, tortum, to twist: cf. F. tortueux. See 1. Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla. The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick. Macaulay. 2. Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful. That course became somewhat lesstortuous, when the battle of the Boyne had cowed the spirit of the Jakobites. Macaulay. 3. Injurious: tortious.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TORTUOUS)

• Ambagious
• Tortuous
• indirect
• anfractuous
• circumlocutory
• circuitous
• periphrastic
• ambiguous
• unintelligible
• pointless
• disjointed
• Circuitous
• Indirect
• tortuous
• devious
• serpentine
• round about
• sinuous
• winding
• Crooked
• Bent
• incurved
• angular
• deformed
• bowed
• disfigured
• turned
• curved
• awry
• underhanded
• Devious
• untracked
• trackless
• pathless
• ambagious
• roundabout
• distorted
• Intricate
• Complicated
• involved
• mazy
• labyrinthine
• entangled

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• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• WIND-RODE
  Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other. Totten.
• WINDINGLY
  In a winding manner.
• ANGULARITY
  The quality or state of being angular; angularness.
• WINDTIGHT
  So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind. Bp. Hall.
• BOW OAR
  . 1. The oar used by the bowman. 2. One who rows at the bow of a boat.
• CROOKBILL
  A New Zealand plover , remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• WINDLACE
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• WIND-SHAKEN
  Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• BOWKNOT
  A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• TURNSTONE
  Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and
• TURNINGNESS
  The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation. Sir P. Sidney.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• WINDBORE
  The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine. Ansted.
• TURNING
  The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned. (more info) 1. The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander. Through paths and turnings often trod
• SERPENTINELY
  In a serpentine manner.
• RE-TURN
  To turn again.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• EMBOWER
  To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser. (more info) -- v. i.
• SUBPENTANGULAR
  Nearly or approximately pentangular; almost pentangular.
• BROKEN WIND
  The heaves.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• THICK WIND
  A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
• DISEMBOWERED
  Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. Bryant.
• NOCTURNAL
  1. Of, pertaining to, done or occuring in, the night; as, nocturnal darkness, cries, expedition, etc.; -- opposed to Ant: diurnal. Dryden. 2. Having a habit of seeking food or moving about at night; as, nocturnal birds and insects.
• BOWGE
  To swell out. See Bouge.