tortuous
/TOR-choo-us/adjectivefull of twists and turns; excessively complex
“The appeal wound through a tortuous six-year process.”
- Synonyms
- winding, serpentine, convoluted
- Antonyms
- straight, direct
- Memory hook
- tortuous: twisted like a mountain road; torturous: painful.
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