- 1(usually disapproving) not simple and direct; long, complicated, and difficult to understand synonym convoluted tortuous language the long, tortuous process of negotiating peace
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- 2(of a road, path, etc.) full of bends synonym winding a tortuous mountain track
adverb a tortuously slow systemSee tortuous in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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