tortuous

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more tortuous

Superlative

most tortuous

1.
(figuratively, often)(often figurative) Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.
2007 October 6, “Slogging on the Home Front”, editorial in The New York Times, It still takes almost half a year for the average veteran’s claim for disability benefits to be decided in a tortuous process that can involve four separate hearings.
2.
(astrology) Oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) that ascend most rapidly and obliquely.
3.
(obsolete)Injurious; tortious.

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nontortuous tortuosity tortuously tortuousness untortuous

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English tortuous, tortuose, from - and Old French tortuos, from Latin tortuōsus, from tortus (a twisting, winding).