| Pronunciation: | | pur'plekst
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| Matching Terms: | | perplexedly
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| | Definition: | | [adj] full or difficulty or confusion or bewilderment; "perplexed language"; "perplexed state of the world" |
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| | Synonyms: | | at a loss(p), at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, metagrabolised, metagrabolized, metagrobolised, metagrobolized, mixed-up, mystified, nonplused, nonplussed, puzzled, questioning, quizzical, stuck |
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| | Antonyms: | | unperplexed |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Per*plexed"\, a.
Entangled, involved, or confused; hence, embarrassd; puzzled;
doubtful; anxious. -- {Per*plex"ed*ly}, adv. --
{Per*plex"ed*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | addled, at a loss, at a nonplus, at a stand, at a standstill, at an impasse, baffled, balled up, balled-up, bamboozled, beat, bewildered, beyond one, bothered, buffaloed, Byzantine, chaotic, complex, complicated, confounded, confused, convoluted, crabbed, cramp, daedal, dazed, devious, difficult, discomposed, disconcerted, disordered, disorganized, disturbed, elaborate, embarrassed, embrangled, entangled, floored, flustered, fluttered, fouled up, fuddled, fussed, garbled, hard, hard to understand, implicated, in a dilemma, in a jumble, in a pother, in a pucker, in a stew, in a sweat, in a swivet, in a tizzy, in suspense, intricate, involuted, involved, jumbled, knotted, knotty, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, licked, loused up, many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, messed up, mixed up, mixed-up, mucked up, muddled, multifarious, mystified, nonplussed, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, on tenterhooks, overtechnical, perturbed, put-out, puzzled, ramified, rattled, roundabout, ruffled, scrambled, screwed up, shaken, shook, shuffled, snarled, stuck, stumped, subtle, tangled, tangly, thrown, tough, twisted, unsettled, upset |
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