Difference between Tortuous and Convoluted

TORTUOUS vs CONVOLUTED: ADJECTIVE

Not straightforward
Highly involved or intricate
Having or marked by repeated turns or bends; winding or twisting.
Not straightforward; circuitous; devious.
Highly involved; complex.
Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding.
Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.
Marked by repeated turns and bends
Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.
Oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) that ascend most rapidly and obliquely
Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
Injurious: tortious.

An obsolete variant of tortious.
Full of twists or turns; winding; hence, crooked; zigzag.
Oblique: applied in astrology to the six zodiacal signs which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.
Figuratively, circuitous; devious; irregular; crooked: especially in a moral sense.
Synonyms Sinuous, serpentine, curvilinear, circuitous, indirect, roundabout.

Laborious, Arduous, Involved, Indirect, Crooked, Intricate, Complex, Tangled, Twisting, Twisty, Winding, Knotty, Byzantine, Labyrinthine, Convoluted

Tricky, Twisted, Perverse, Chaotic, Cumbersome, Complicated, Coiled, Involved, Knotty, Tangled, Complex, Intricate, Tortuous, Labyrinthine, Byzantine

Laborious, Arduous, Involved, Indirect, Crooked, Intricate, Complex, Tangled, Twisting, Twisty, Winding, Knotty, Byzantine, Labyrinthine, Convoluted

Tricky, Twisted, Perverse, Chaotic, Cumbersome, Complicated, Coiled, Involved, Knotty, Tangled, Complex, Intricate, Tortuous, Labyrinthine, Byzantine

Instead, gene and behavior are often connected by tortuous routes.
It was mentally tortuous, almost like being in a gulag.
It has thus passed some severe and tortuous tests already.
ANT: Indirect, winding, incurved, tortuous, sinuous, serpentine, circuitous, waving, crooked.
Engorged and tortuous veins always indicate some underlying pathology.
Tortuous vessels often demonstrate a finite amplitude of waviness.
Proving citizenship in Assam is a tortuous process.
Dilated and tortuous blood vessels in dermal papillae.
The Agreement has a somewhat tortuous negotiating history.
Hello, I want to share my tortuous experience.

Silver and Gold are a bit more convoluted.
If this sounds illogical and convoluted, it is.
The history of stock car racing is convoluted.
Does it really have to be this convoluted?
This one is an imaginative and convoluted caper.
The military justice system, conversely, is incredibly convoluted.
So that likely accounts for the convoluted URL.
And I think that kind of became convoluted.
The English language is saturated with convoluted words.
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