tortuous vs torturous
Definitions
adjective
- not straightforward
- marked by repeated turns and bends
- highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
Examples
The road towards qualification still seems like it is going to be another long and tortuous one.
In foreign policy, he has Obama's specific mandate to monitor the wind-down of the American troop involvement in Iraq and to baby-sit its tortuous journey to political stability.
With superb boatmanship he threaded the narrow, tortuous channel which no craft larger than a whaleboat could negotiate, until the shoals and patches showed seaward and they grounded on the quiet, rippling beach.
Definitions
adjective
- extremely painful
Examples
On the other hand, however, he wouldn't have to continue with that torturous pain anymore.
After a period of intense interrogation under torturous conditions, he is sent to a POW camp.
First, the process of creating fur is an ugly, brutal and arguably torturous business.
