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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

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