tortuous
adjective
1. highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
- tortuous legal procedures
- tortuous negotiations lasting for months
Similar word(s): complex, byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled
2. marked by repeated turns and bends
- a tortuous road up the mountain
Similar word(s): crooked, twisting, twisty, voluminous, winding
3. not straightforward
- his tortuous reasoning
Similar word(s): indirect