“The logic in this legacy code is absolutely torturous.”
Confusables Entry 361 / 1011 60-second read
Tortuous vs. Torturous
Full of twists versus involving pain.
The comparisoni
“The logic in this legacy code is absolutely tortuous.”
More examplesii
01
The tortuous wait for the deployment to finish.
The torturous wait for the deployment to finish.
02
The mountain road is very torturous.
The mountain road is very tortuous.
The ruleiii
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TORTUOUS = full of twists and turns; excessively complex.
Both imply that something is 'difficult' or 'unpleasant', but one is structural and the other is experiential.
Memory aidiv
Remember it like this
Tortuous is like a Tour (full of turns). Torturous is like Torture.