Tortuosity, n. Crookedness, sinuosity, curvature, bend, crook, winding, tortuousness.
Tortuous, a.
- 1. Crooked, sinuous, curved, curvilinear, curvilineal, sinuate, sinuated, winding, serpentine, bending in
and out, wreathed, twisted, mazy, flexuous.
- 2. Perverse, circuitous, roundabout, indirect, deceitful, wrong, erroneous, mischievous, crooked, ambiguous.
Tortuousness, n. See Tortuosity.
Torture, n. Anguish, agony, torment, rack, pang, extreme pain, excruciating pain, acute distress.
Torture, v. a. Torment, distress, agonize, rack, excruciate, pain extremely, put to extreme pain.
Torturer, n. Tormentor.
Tory, n. (Eng. Politics.) Conservative, adherent of the crown, supporter of royal and ecclesiastical authority.
Toss, v. a.
- 1. Throw (by the hand and upward), throw up.
- 2. Lift up suddenly, throw up, raise violently.
- 3. Fling, pitch, cast, hurl, throw.
- 4. Agitate, shake, rock.
- 5. Try, harass, disquiet, make restless.
- 6. Keep in play, tumble over.
Toss, v. n.
- 1. Roll, writhe, fling, tumble about, be uneasy, be in violent commotion.
- 2. Be agitated, be tossed, be moved tumultuously.
Tossel, n. See Tassel.
Toss for. Gamble for.
Toss off. Drink hastily, gulp down.
Toss-pot, n. Toper, drunkard, tippler, sot, dram-drinker, soaker, devotee to Bacchus.