Tormentous vs. Tortuous — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Tormentous and Tortuous
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Tormentous
Involving or causing torment; having the nature of torture.
Tortuous
Full of twists and turns
The route is remote and tortuous
Tortuous
Having or marked by repeated turns or bends; winding or twisting
A tortuous road through the mountains.
Tortuous
Not straightforward; circuitous; devious
A tortuous plot.
Tortuous reasoning.
Tortuous
Highly involved; complex
Tortuous legal procedures.
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Tortuous
Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.
Tortuous
(astrology) Oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) that ascend most rapidly and obliquely.
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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