tortuous

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tortuous Definition

• (s) 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 lab
• (s) 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"
• (s) not straightforward; "his tortuous reasoning"

tortuous Synonyms

• Byzantine
• convoluted
• intricate
• involved
• knotty
• labyrinthine
• tangled
• tortuous
• twisting
• twisty
• winding