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Tortious vs Tortuous - What's the difference?

tortious | tortuous |

In context|obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between tortious and tortuous

is that tortious is (obsolete) wrongful; harmful while tortuous is (obsolete) injurious; tortious.

As adjectives the difference between tortious and tortuous

is that tortious is (obsolete) wrongful; harmful while tortuous is twisted; having many turns; convoluted.

tortious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Wrongful; harmful.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.9:
    • he found great store of hoorded threasure, / The which that tyrant gathered had by wrong / And tortious powre […].
  • (legal) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of torts.

    • Synonyms

    * wrongful

    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 .