TORTUOUS Synonyms

• connected by participation or association or use

• entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire

• emotionally involved

• highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

• enveloped

• making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

• used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots

• highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

• tangled in knots or snarls

• relating to or affecting or originating in the inner ear

• resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity

• highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

• the act of winding or twisting

• marked by repeated turns and bends

• of a path e.g.

• marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct

• deviating from a straight course

• complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts

• a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts

• a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated

• (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior

• a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures

• difficult to analyze or understand

• marked by complexity and richness of detail

• developed or executed with care and in minute detail

• add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing

• produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product

• make more complex, intricate, or richer

• work out in detail

• having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate

• of a path e.g.

• resembling a serpent in form

• having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented

• of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it

• of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium

• a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire

• highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

• in a confused mass

• highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

• the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

• the act of rotating rapidly

• marked by repeated turns and bends

• marked by repeated turns and bends

• large in volume or bulk

• marked by repeated turns and bends

• large in number or quantity (especially of discourse)