Details of word TORTUOUS

Definition of tortuous

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.

Word "tortuous" contains 8 letters : O O R S T T U U

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