Hyphenation of tortuous

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word tortuous? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

tor-tu-ous

Definitions of tortuous:

1.	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
2.	What a tangled web we weave- Sir Walter Scott Tortuous legal procedures Tortuous negotiations lasting for months
3.	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
4.	Not straightforward His tortuous reasoning

Synonyms of tortuous:

adj	Byzantine, convoluted, intricate, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, tangled, complex
adj	twisting, twisty, winding, crooked
adj	indirect

Last hyphenations of this language

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