tortuous
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US'tɔ:tʃəwəs
معنی فارسی
پيچاپيچ غيرمستقيم کج
معنی کامل و مثالها
/tôr´chōō ǝs,-chǝ wǝs; -tyōō ǝs/adj.
● پیچاک، پر پیچ و خم، پیچاپیچ
a tortuous road
راه پر پیچ و خم
● نادرست، نادرستکار، دغل، فریبکار، ریاکار
● نادرستانه، ریاکارانه، فریبآمیز، نابکارانه
a tortuous act
عمل فریبآمیز
تعریف انگلیسی
adjective
- highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious “the Byzantine tax structure” “Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship” “convoluted legal language” “convoluted reasoning” “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”
- 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”
- not straightforward “his tortuous reasoning”
مترادفها
adjective
1. Crooked, sinuous, curved, curvilinear, curvilineal, sinuate, sinuated, winding, serpentine, bending in and out, wreathed, twisted, mazy, flexuous.
2. Perverse, circuitous, roundabout, indirect, deceitful, wrong, erroneous, mischievous, crooked, ambiguous.