puzzling
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4.6
- adjective
- /ˈpʌzlɪŋ/
:
desconcertante
- The magician's tricks were so puzzling that the audience couldn't figure out how he did them.
- find puzzling
- seem puzzling
- remain puzzling
I mean, I find it puzzling, but maybe I'm naive.
- I mean, I find it puzzling, but maybe I'm naive.
- And the better you understand that story, the less puzzling modern life is.
- So it's very striking and to some extent puzzling narrative choice on Falkman's part.
- I wouldn't say so It's it's certainly a kind of a puzzling first contact.
- The only one that's a little puzzling is what about a service like shining shoes?
- And let's let's quantify and make precise why it's so puzzling.
- But a lot of these studies I find rather puzzling.
- Some of these points are are quite hilarious, some others are rather puzzling.
- And there are some very cool goodies in here, alongside some most puzzling choices.
- And the most puzzling thing about the entire thing is how many people believe this bullshit.
- What he found especially puzzling was that there were physical effects that only seemed to depend on the relative.
Examples
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I thought that this would only be a minor inconvenience with a few puzzling and harmless emails, but it turned out to be much worse.
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We'll discuss her puzzling behavior later on again.
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And the better you understand that story, the less puzzling modern life is.
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It's a very, very puzzling set of questions.
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A negative relationship would at least be a relationship, so it is puzzling that no relationship was found.
Academic text (1993) -
So it's a kind of interesting and sort of puzzling phenomenon.
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Did it account for the puzzling requests she had made of him?
Fiction book (1992) -
The situation became more and more puzzling to Sork the more he thought about it.
Fiction book (1991) -
Through these questions darted the most puzzling one of all: why was she so angry about these gifts?
Fiction book (1994) -
The contemporary heated debate around "postmodernism" is in some ways a puzzling matter: why these terms, why now?
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
498
5.1
Hard to understand or explain because it seems strange
276
3.2
Hard to understand and makes people feel unsure
52
7.0
Hard to understand or describe, like the meaning of a symbol
31
7.0
Very surprising or hard to understand
27
8.1
Hard to understand and often seems mysterious
27
6.4
Hard to understand and causing confusion
16
6.7
Making people feel confused because it is hard to understand
13
5.2
Causing a lot of confusion and making things hard to understand
12
8.9
Hard to understand because it shows no clear meaning or feeling
7
7.3
Causing someone to feel confused
1
7.7
Making people confused and things hard to understand
1
9.3
Hard to understand, like a puzzle
Difficult to understand and making people wonder
Antonyms
How Confusing
47
7.8
27
6.4
16
6.7
42
4.6
276
3.2
207
3.9
798
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Puzzling comes from the simple word puzzle, which long meant 'to confuse', like a jigsaw puzzle that stops you and makes you think. So, something puzzling is hard to understand and leaves you feeling 'confused'.