puzzlingly
1
6.1
- adverb
- /ˈpʌzlɪŋli/
:
de manera confusa
- But the plays I had seen my brother routinely make were suddenly and puzzlingly beyond him, his instincts dulled, as if he were growing old before my eyes.
Examples
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The labor market is puzzlingly weak, in spite of massive Fed intervention.
Blog text (25) -
The team's decision to change their strategy was puzzlingly unexpected.
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She was puzzlingly well connected for someone who'd come to New York only last month.
Fiction book (1998) -
Klein wrote, "Beyond being flatly false, Romney's ads are puzzlingly anachronistic."
Blog text (12) -
Puzzlingly, some Anglo-American students read into this idea a far more transcendent, benign, nurturing, and loving "parent" than I had envisaged.
Academic text (2008) -
They talked about men, how disappointing they were as a group, agreeing that neither of them liked the floral stink of aftershave or the puzzlingly popular aesthetic of boxer shorts, which transformed all men into their uncles.
Fiction book (2000) -
I mean, I look like one and have the "equipment," but then, puzzlingly, I am not married, don't have kids, like logic and mechanical things, and other— ahem— "manly" pursuits.
Blog text (15) -
Rather puzzlingly, ecocritics who suggest that humor has been all but absent in environmentally oriented writing and criticism have generally overlooked the important tradition of satire and dark humor in twentieth-century science fiction with ecocatastrophic themes.
Academic text (2018) -
She spoke in a puzzlingly vague manner, leaving everyone confused about her true intentions.
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The results of the experiment were puzzlingly different from what we anticipated.
Synonyms
67
4.6
In a way that is strange and hard to understand
31
4.1
In a strange or unexpected way
3
8.1
In a way that hides the true meaning
3
4.0
In a way that makes it hard to understand
2
8.0
It is very hard to understand
2
8.1
In a way that is very hard to understand
1
7.5
In a way that makes people feel uneasy or confused
1
8.4
In a way that is very surprising and hard to understand
1
8.3
In a mysterious way that is hard to understand
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8.2
In a confusing way that makes something hard to understand
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6.9
In a way that people cannot understand
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7.9
In a way that makes something hard to understand
1
8.4
In a way that is very confusing and hard to understand
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7.9
In a way that is hard to understand
1
8.0
In a way that is confusing and hard to understand
1
9.6
In a way that hides what someone feels and is hard to understand
In a way that is hard to find, catch, or understand
In a way that is hard to understand or does not match what you expect
Antonyms
How Confusing
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Puzzlingly comes from puzzle plus -ing and -ly. The root puzzle means 'to confuse', so something done puzzlingly is done in a confusing or hard-to-understand way.