Word Meaning

tortuous definition and meaning

a. Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.
a. Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.
a. Injurious: tortious.
a. Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.