English search results for: tortuous

#1

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. Charybdis (whirlpool Sicily/Italy)
  2. cruel person
  3. tortuous cavity
  4. whirlpool
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: Italy/Rome
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#2

adjective

Definitions:

  1. curved
  2. winding/sinuous/tortuous
  3. with many curves in it, full of bends/turns
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#3

adjective

Definitions:

  1. twisting, tortuous
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say