Word Meaning

Meaning of tortuous

- Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.
- Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.
- Injurious: tortious.
- Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.

Crossword clue for tortuous

- Cunning