tortuous Definition

convoluted, labyrinthine, byzantine, knotty, winding, twisty, twisting, tangled, complex, intricate, crooked, indirect, involved, arduous, laborious, circuitous, painful, complicated, difficult, cruel, sinuous, twisted, burdensome, roundabout, hard, long-winded, torturous, tedious, lengthy, treacherous, interminable, bumpy, perilous, hellish, tricky, acrimonious, labyrinthian, painstaking, nightmarish, toilsome, thorny, tiresome, gruelling, sordid, serpentine, cumbersome, strenuous, zigzag, grueling, protracted, excruciating, agonizing, messy, exhausting, harrowing, bewildering, sisyphean, rancorous, tortuose, exasperating, maddening, stormy, chaotic, tumultuous, rocky, twistical, frustrating, kafkaesque, bizarre, tempestuous, fruitless, fitful, contentious, labyrinthal, farcical, desultory, wrenching, wearisome, convolute, enervating, purgatorial, daunting, turbulent, dizzying, unpleasant, unedifying, inglorious, ignominious, fractious, confusing, brutal, murkiest, disastrous, turgid, bitter, winded, hectic, rutted, shambolic, unilluminating,