English-Thai Dictionary

tortuous

ADJ ซับซ้อน  sab-son

 

tortuous

ADJ บิด งอ  bid-ngor

 

tortuous

ADJ หลอกลวง  devious lok-luang

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TORTUOUS

a.[L. tortuosus.] 1. Twisted; wreathed; winding; as a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corol, in botany.
2. Tortious. [Not used. ] [See Tortious. ]

 

TORTUOUSNESS

n.The state of being twisted.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

TORTUOUS

Tor "tu *ous, a. Etym: [OE. tortuos, L.tortuosus, fr. tortus a twisting, winding, fr. torquere, tortum, to twist: cf. F. tortueux. See Torture. ]

 

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. [Obs. ]

 

4. (Astrol.)

 

Defn: Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini ) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely. [Obs. ] Skeat. Infortunate ascendent tortuous. Chaucer. --Tor "tu *ous *ly, adv. -- Tor "tu *ous *ness, n.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

tortuous

tor tu ous |ˈtôrCHo͞oəs ˈtɔːrtʃuəs | ▶adjective full of twists and turns: the route is remote and tortuous. • excessively lengthy and complex: a tortuous argument. DERIVATIVES tor tu os i ty |ˌtôrCHo͞oˈäsitē |noun ( pl. tortuosities ), tor tu ous ly adverb, tor tu ous ness noun ORIGIN late Middle English: via Old French from Latin tortuosus, from tortus ‘twisting, a twist, ’ from Latin torquere ‘to twist. ’ usage: On the difference between tortuous and torturous, see usage at torturous .

 

Oxford Dictionary

tortuous

tortuous |ˈtɔːtʃʊəs, -jʊəs | ▶adjective full of twists and turns: the route is remote and tortuous. • excessively lengthy and complex: a tortuous argument. DERIVATIVES tortuosity |-ˈɒsɪti |noun ( pl. tortuosities ), tortuously adverb, tortuousness noun ORIGIN late Middle English: via Old French from Latin tortuosus, from tortus ‘twisting, a twist ’, from Latin torquere ‘to twist ’. usage: The two words tortuous and torturous have different core meanings. Tortuous means ‘full of twists and turns ’, as in a tortuous route. Torturous means ‘involving or causing torture ’, as in a torturous five days of fitness training. In extended senses, however, tortuous is used to mean ‘excessively lengthy and complex ’ and hence may become indistinguishable from torturous: something which is tortuous is often also torturous, as in a tortuous piece of bureaucratic language; their way had been tortuous and very difficult. The overlap in sense has led to tortuous being sometimes used interchangeably with torturous, as in he would at last draw in a tortuous gasp of air.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

tortuous

tortuous adjective 1 a tortuous route: twisting, twisty, twisting and turning, winding, windy, zigzag, sinuous, snaky, serpentine, meandering, circuitous. ANTONYMS straight. 2 a tortuous argument: convoluted, complicated, complex, labyrinthine, tangled, tangly, involved, confusing, difficult to follow, involuted, lengthy, overlong, circuitous. ANTONYMS straightforward.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

tortuous

tortuous adjective 1 the road follows a tortuous route: twisting, winding, curving, curvy, bending, sinuous, undulating, coiling, looping, meandering, serpentine, snaking, snaky, zigzag, convoluted, spiralling, twisty, circuitous, rambling, wandering, indirect, deviating, devious, labyrinthine, mazy; rare anfractuous, flexuous. ANTONYMS straight. 2 a tortuous argument: convoluted, roundabout, circuitous, indirect, unstraightforward, involved, complicated, complex, confusing, lengthy, overlong, verbose, difficult to follow. ANTONYMS straightforward. EASILY CONFUSED WORDS tortuous or torturous? Tortuous and torturous have different meanings. Tortuous means ‘full of twists and turns ’, as in a tortuous route, while torturous means ‘involving or causing torture ’, as in a torturous five days of fitness training —although something which is tortuous in the word's extended sense ‘excessively lengthy and complex ’ may also be torturous (a tortuous piece of bureaucratese ). This overlap has led to tortuous being sometimes used where torturous would be correct, as in he would at last draw in a tortuous gasp of air. These notes clear up confusion between similar-looking pairs.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

tortuous

tor tu ous /tɔ́ː r tʃuəs , ｟英 ｠tɔ́ːtju -/形容詞 1 曲がりくねった, ねじれた .2 回りくどい, 遠回しの ; 人をだます (ような ).～ly 副詞 ～ness 名詞