tortious

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman torcious.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔːʃəs/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔɹʃəs/

Adjective

tortious (comparative more tortious, superlative most tortious)

(obsolete) Wrongful; harmful.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  he found great store of hoorded threasure, / The which that tyrant gathered had by wrong / And tortious powre […]
(law) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of torts.

Synonyms

(wrongful): wrongful

Derived terms

Related terms

tort

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