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Meandering vs Tortuous - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between meandering and tortuous

is that meandering is winding or rambling while tortuous is twisted; having many turns; convoluted.

As a verb meandering

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun meandering

is an instance or period or roaming.

meandering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • winding or rambling

    • Derived terms

    * meanderingly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance or period or roaming.

    • 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 .