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Tortuous vs Labyrinth - What's the difference?

tortuous | labyrinth |

As an adjective tortuous

is twisted; having many turns; convoluted.

As a noun labyrinth is

labyrinth.

tortuous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.
  • * 2007 October 6, “Slogging on the Home Front”, editorial in ,
    • It still takes almost half a year for the average veteran’s claim for disability benefits to be decided in a tortuous process that can involve four separate hearings.
  • * Macaulay
    • The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick.
  • (obsolete) injurious; tortious
  • (astrology) oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) that ascend most rapidly and obliquely
  • * Skeat
    • Infortunate ascendent tortuous .

    Usage notes

    * This term has strongly negative connotations, perhaps transferred from the similar-sounding adjective torturous . * Not to be confused with the legal term tortious .

    labyrinth

    English

    (wikipedia labyrinth)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A maze, especially underground or covered.
  • Part of the inner ear.
  • (figuratively) Anything complicated and confusing, like a maze.
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    • Derived terms

    * cochlear labyrinth * cortical labyrinth * ethmoidal labyrinth * labyrinthal * labyrinthed * labyrinthial * labyrinthian * labyrinthic * labyrinthical * labyrinthically * labyrinthiform * labyrinthine * labyrinth seal * membranous labyrinth * olfactory labyrinth * osseous labyrinth * prayer labyrinth * unicursal labyrinth * vestibular labyrinth

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To enclose in a labyrinth, or as though in a labyrinth.
  • To arrange in the form of a labyrinth.

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