Adjective: tortuous tor-choo-us
- Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
"tortuous legal procedures";
- Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, labyrinthine
- Marked by repeated turns and bends
"a tortuous road up the mountain";
- twisty, winding, voluminous, windy[2]
- Not straightforward
"his tortuous reasoning"
Sounds like: tor
See also: complex, crooked, indirect
Encyclopedia: Tortuous