Definitions for "Tortuous"
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"
Keywords:  bent, wreathed, corolla, twisted, leaf
Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.
Twisted or bent.
Fig.: 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.
Keywords:  tortious, injurious
Injurious: tortious.
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"
not straightforward; "his tortuous reasoning"