tortuous
adjective
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
the Byzantine tax structure
Related & opposite
- complicatedness derivation
- complex similar to
Sense 2 adjective
marked by repeated turns and bends
a tortuous road up the mountain
Related & opposite
- tortuousness derivation
- crooked similar to
Sense 3 adjective
not straightforward
his tortuous reasoning
Related & opposite
- complicatedness derivation
- indirect similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | complicatedness |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | complex |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | tortuousness |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | crooked |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | complicatedness |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | indirect |