Torturous vs. Tortuous — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Torturous and Tortuous
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Definitions
Torturous
Characterized by, involving, or causing pain or suffering
A torturous five days of fitness training
Tortuous
Full of twists and turns
The route is remote and tortuous
Torturous
Of, relating to, or causing torture.
Tortuous
Having or marked by repeated turns or bends; winding or twisting
A tortuous road through the mountains.
Torturous
Twisted; strained. See Usage Note at tortuous.
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Tortuous
Not straightforward; circuitous; devious
A tortuous plot.
Tortuous reasoning.
Torturous
Of or pertaining to torture.
Tortuous
Highly involved; complex
Tortuous legal procedures.
Torturous
Painful, excruciating, torturing.
Tortuous
Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.
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Torturous
Involving, or pertaining to, torture.
Tortuous
(astrology) Oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) that ascend most rapidly and obliquely.
Torturous
Extremely painful
Tortuous
(obsolete) Injurious; tortious.
Tortuous
Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.
The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick.
Tortuous
Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.
That course became somewhat lesstortuous, when the battle of the Boyne had cowed the spirit of the Jakobites.
Tortuous
Injurious: tortious.
Tortuous
Oblique; - applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.
Infortunate ascendent tortuous.
Tortuous
Highly involved or intricate;
The Byzantine tax structure
Convoluted legal language
Convoluted reasoning
Intricate needlework
An intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology
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
Tortuous
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
Tortuous
Not straightforward;
His tortuous reasoning
