(ת') מתפתל; מעוות; בערמומיות, לא ישר

adj. twisting, winding, bending; marked by tricky tactics, crooked

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Adjective
1. highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"
(synonym) Byzantine, convoluted, intricate, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, tangled
(similar) complex
2. marked by repeated turns and bends; "a tortuous road up the mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had to steer the car down a twisty track"
(synonym) twisting, twisty, winding
(similar) crooked
3. not straightforward; "his tortuous reasoning"
(similar) indirect

příd.jm. zamotaný; komplikovaný; klikatý; křivolaký

Przym. kręty

(a.)
Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.
  

(a.)
Injurious: tortious.
  

(a.)
Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.
  

(a.)
Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.