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tortuous
(encz) | tortuous,klikatý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
tortuous
(encz) | tortuous,komplikující Alois Musil |
tortuous
(encz) | tortuous,křivý Alois Musil |
tortuous
(encz) | tortuous,nepoctivý Alois Musil |
Tortuous
(gcide) | Tortuous \Tor"tu*ous\, a. [OE. tortuos, L. tortuosus, fr. tortus
a twisting, winding, fr. torquere, tortum, to twist: cf. F.
tortueux. See Torture.]
1. Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding;
as, a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.
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The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the
side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick.
--Macaulay.
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2. Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous;
deceitful.
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That course became somewhat lesstortuous, when the
battle of the Boyne had cowed the spirit of the
Jakobites. --Macaulay.
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3. Injurious: tortious. [Obs.]
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4. (Astrol.) Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the
zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most
rapidly and obliquely. [Obs.] --Skeat.
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Infortunate ascendent tortuous. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster] --Tor"tu*ous*ly, adv. --
Tor"tu*ous*ness, n.
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tortuous
(wn) | 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" |
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tortuous
(encz) | tortuous,klikatý adj: Zdeněk Brožtortuous,komplikující Alois Musiltortuous,křivý Alois Musiltortuous,nepoctivý Alois Musil |
tortuously
(encz) | tortuously,komplikovaně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
tortuousness
(encz) | tortuousness,křivolakost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Tortuously
(gcide) | Tortuous \Tor"tu*ous\, a. [OE. tortuos, L. tortuosus, fr. tortus
a twisting, winding, fr. torquere, tortum, to twist: cf. F.
tortueux. See Torture.]
1. Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding;
as, a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.
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The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the
side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick.
--Macaulay.
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2. Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous;
deceitful.
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That course became somewhat lesstortuous, when the
battle of the Boyne had cowed the spirit of the
Jakobites. --Macaulay.
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3. Injurious: tortious. [Obs.]
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4. (Astrol.) Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the
zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most
rapidly and obliquely. [Obs.] --Skeat.
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Infortunate ascendent tortuous. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster] --Tor"tu*ous*ly, adv. --
Tor"tu*ous*ness, n.
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Tortuousness
(gcide) | Tortuous \Tor"tu*ous\, a. [OE. tortuos, L. tortuosus, fr. tortus
a twisting, winding, fr. torquere, tortum, to twist: cf. F.
tortueux. See Torture.]
1. Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding;
as, a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.
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The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the
side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick.
--Macaulay.
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2. Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous;
deceitful.
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That course became somewhat lesstortuous, when the
battle of the Boyne had cowed the spirit of the
Jakobites. --Macaulay.
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3. Injurious: tortious. [Obs.]
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4. (Astrol.) Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the
zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most
rapidly and obliquely. [Obs.] --Skeat.
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Infortunate ascendent tortuous. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster] --Tor"tu*ous*ly, adv. --
Tor"tu*ous*ness, n.
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tortuous
(wn) | 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" |
tortuously
(wn) | tortuously
adv 1: with twists and turns
2: in a tortuous manner; "tortuously haggling over the price" |
tortuousness
(wn) | tortuousness
n 1: a tortuous and twisted shape or position; "they built a
tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs"; "the acrobat
performed incredible contortions" [syn: tortuosity,
tortuousness, torsion, contortion, crookedness]
2: puzzling complexity [syn: complicatedness, complication,
knottiness, tortuousness] |
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