tortuous

English - Turkish

Definition of tortuous in English Turkish dictionary

çetrefil

burmalı

fazlasıyla komplike

kıvrıntılar gösteren

yılankavi

çok dolambaçlı

büğrü

büküntülü

dönen

dolaylı

haksız

kaçamaklı

dolambaçlı

{s} namussuz

{s} eğri büğrü

{s} eğri

çapraşık/eğri büğrü

dolambaçlı büküle kıvrıla uzayan

{s} dolaşık

{s} dalavereli

{s} dolaşık, çapraşık (yöntem/hareket)

{s} kıvrımlı

{s} hileli

çapraşık (yöntem)

Related Terms

tortuousness

haksızlık

tortuously

eğri büğrü bir şekilde

tortuousness

dolambaçlılık

English - English

Definition of tortuous in English English dictionary

Twisted; having many turns; convoluted

It still takes almost half a year for the average veteran’s claim for disability benefits to be decided in a tortuous process that can involve four separate hearings.

abounding in irregular bends or turns

{a} twisted, wreathed, mischievous

marked by repeated turns and bends; "a tortuous road up the mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had to steer the car down a twisty track

A tortuous process or piece of writing is very long and complicated. these long and tortuous negotiations aimed at ending the conflict

{s} twisting, winding, bending; marked by tricky tactics, crooked

A tortuous road is full of bends and twists. The only road access is a tortuous mountain route

Injurious: tortious

not straightforward; "his tortuous reasoning"

not straightforward; "his tortuous reasoning" marked by repeated turns and bends; "a tortuous road up the mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had to steer the car down a twisty track

highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"

Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful

Oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely

Fig

Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla

Related Terms

tortuously

in a tortuous manner; "tortuously haggling over the price"

tortuously

crookedly, windingly, twistingly

tortuously

in a tortuous manner; "tortuously haggling over the price

tortuously

In a tortuous manner

tortuousness

a tortuous and twisted shape or position; "they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs"; "the acrobat performed incredible contortions"

tortuousness

The property of being tortuous

tortuousness

{i} quality of being twisted, being full of curves; zigzag; meandering, bending

Hyphenation

tor·tu·ous

Turkish pronunciation

tôrçıwıs

Synonyms

anfractuous, bent, circuitous, convoluted, crooked, curved, flexuous, indirect, involute, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, meandrous, roundabout, serpentine

Antonyms

direct, straight, untwisted, easy, straightforward, uncomplicated, uninvolved

Pronunciation

/ˈtôrʧəwəs/ /ˈtɔːrʧəwəs/

Etymology

[ 'torch-w&s, 'tor-ch&- ] (adjective.) 15th century. Middle English, from Middle French tortueux, from Latin tortuosus, from tortus twist, from torquEre to twist.