Perplex

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To confuse or trouble with uncertainty or doubt. See Synonyms at puzzle.
  • v. To make confusedly intricate; complicate.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To cause to feel baffled; to puzzle.
  • adj. intricate; difficult
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood.
  • v. To embarrass; to puzzle; to distract; to bewilder; to confuse; to trouble with ambiguity, suspense, or anxiety.
  • v. To plague; to vex; to tormen.
  • adj. Intricate; difficult.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Intricate; difficult.
  • n. A difficulty; an entanglement; something hard to understand; a perplexity.
  • To make intricate; involve; entangle; make complicated and difficult to be understood or unraveled.
  • To embarrass; puzzle; distract; bewilder; trouble with suspense, anxiety, or ambiguity.
  • Synonyms To complicate, tangle, snarl.
  • Puzzle, etc. (see embarrass), confuse, harass, pose, nonplus, put to a stand, mystify.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. be a mystery or bewildering to
  • v. make more complicated
  • Verb Form
    perplexed    perplexes    perplexing   
    Cross Reference
    complicate   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    puzzle    complicate    Embarrass    entangle    bewilder    confuse    involve    distract    embarrass    plague   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Czechs    Ex    Lex    Rex    Tex    Triplex    X    aix    annex    becks   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    anxious    depress    unsettle    Embarrass    sad    uncertain    confuse    dissatisfied    ashamed    apprehensive