单词 | tortuousness |
释义 | tortuousness (once / 537242 pages) n WORD FAMILY tortuous: tortuosity, tortuously, tortuousness+/tortuosity: tortuosities USAGE EXAMPLESNor yet with sufficient distinctness the sense of tortuousness, so strongly brought out in some of its derivatives. Ferguson, Robert, The River-Names of Europe(2011) Dysentery had already broken out, and the length and tortuousness of their communications were greatly emphasised by the condition of the roads. Belloc, Hilaire, The French Revolution(2011) Nevertheless, you must have observed, although with greater curiosity than concern, the slipperiness and tortuousness of your detractors. Landor, Walter Savage, Imaginary Conversations and Poems—A...(2010) 1n a tortuous and twisted shape or position Syn|Hyper contortion, crookedness, torsion, tortuosity distorted shape, distortion a shape resulting from distortion 2n puzzling complexity Syn|Hyper complicatedness, complication, knottiness complexity, complexness the quality of being intricate and compounded |
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