Word
Tortuous
How many syllables?
3 Syllables
How it's divided?
tor-tu-ous
Definition
- 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.
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