perplexing
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6.7
- adjective
- /pərˈplɛksɪŋ/
:
desconcertante
- Many students find the concept of quantum physics perplexing due to its complexities.
- perplexing problem
- perplexing situation
- perplexing question
You are born into a perpetual perplexing situation.
- You are born into a perpetual perplexing situation.
- So it sounds quite, it sounds quite perplexing, but it's not too strange an idea.
- We became sleuths in this very perplexing mystery.
- I know that's one of the perplexing things to me.
- All right, so we left ourselves at the end of the last lecture in a somewhat perplexing situation.
- This question of the interaction of rifampin and the Fabrins is one that's been perplexing for a number of years.
- This is very perplexing because it seems to not depend on an initial state.
- And in this very moment, we are almost too conscious to feign, feign some sort of ignorance against this, this perplexing ordeal that is existence.
- So I leave you from March break with the following perplexing non solution to a really profound moral problem.
- So that is a very interesting thing to say about anger, one of the most complex and often perplexing of the human emotions.
- And this again is one of these intriguing but perplexing things, which is that sleep deprivation can improve symptoms of depression.
- It's yeah, it's so that chat was always, yeah, it was perplexing to me.
Examples
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Jason, all these big words are really perplexing to me.
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There is a delicate and perplexing matter... I must discuss with my brother.
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I realize, however, that my presence here may be perplexing to some of you.
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One of the perplexing things about this case is ..
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So, you know, it's a very perplexing statement at first, but it's a very powerful tool.
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I'm in a very perplexing situation.
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Here we are faced with a perplexing paradox.
Academic text (2013) -
The mysteries that surround the case are as perplexing today as they were a century ago.
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Bill Clinton's personal religious odyssey is almost as colorful and perplexing as his political career.
Academic text (1996) -
The instructions for assembling the furniture were so perplexing that I had to ask for help.
Synonyms
276
3.2
Hard to understand and makes people feel unsure
46
8.8
Difficult or impossible to understand
42
4.6
Hard to understand or explain
31
7.0
Very surprising or hard to understand
27
6.4
Hard to understand and causing confusion
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5.2
Causing a lot of confusion and making things hard to understand
8
6.0
Making someone feel confused and unable to find their way
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7.3
Causing someone to feel confused
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7.7
Making people confused and things hard to understand
1
9.3
Hard to understand, like a puzzle
Causing someone to be unable to speak because they are very surprised
Antonyms
How Confusing
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word perplexing comes from the parts per- meaning 'completely' and plex meaning 'to weave', as in complex. Think of a problem like threads all woven together; a perplexing problem feels 'confusing' and hard to untangle.