tortuously

1. 1.

   with twists and turns
2. 2.

   in a tortuous manner

   “tortuously haggling over the price”

Questions about tortuously

What does tortuously mean?

tortuously means "with twists and turns". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tortuously?

tortuously has 4 syllables: tor-tu-ou-sly. The stress falls on "tu".

Is tortuously a common word?

tortuously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.