inflected vs tortuous

inflected

adj
  • bent or curved inward or downward 

  • Changed in form to reflect function (referring to a word). 

  • Having inflected word forms; fusional. 

  • Deviating from a straight line. 

tortuous

adj
  • Twisted; having many turns; convoluted. 

  • Oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) that ascend most rapidly and obliquely. 

How often have the words inflected and tortuous occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )