Tortuous - Definition
tortuous
adj 1: highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious;
"the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for
holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal
language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "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" [syn:
Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty,
tangled, tortuous]
2: 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" [syn: tortuous,
twisting, twisty, winding, voluminous]
3: not straightforward; "his tortuous reasoning"