TORTUOUS

(adj.) not straightforward
"his tortuous reasoning"
(adj.) 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", "tortuous legal procedures", "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"
synonyms : byzantine , convoluted , involved , knotty , tangled
She could not follow his convoluted discourse. -added by naila_inlas
the candidates cautiously gave their views on an array of knotty issues -added by nithi
(adj.) 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"
synonyms : twisting , twisty , voluminous , winding

Mnemonics for tortuous

(Tag: ) a tortoise does not move in straight line... it keeps twisting and turning making path complicated.
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(Tag: ) tortuous - torque(twisting)uous: full of twisting
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(Tag: ) TORTUre fOr US to follow
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(Tag: ) The Tortuous Spiral Maze, which had a lot of twists and turns, had everyone perplexed.
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(Tag: ) if u remember contort it means to twist out shape. tortuous meaning is very close to that.
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(Tag: ) The Tortuous Spiral Maze (which has a lot of twists and turns) had everynone perplexed.
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(Tag: ) tortoise mosquito coil will not be straight it is twisted and winded . Tortoise coil is in rhyming with tortuous.
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(Tag: ) the pronunciation of this word is not simple, it twists the tongue
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(Tag: ) tortuous can be compared to circuitous.. And both means almost same
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