Crossword clues for perplexing
perplexing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perplex \Per*plex"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Perplexed; p. pr. & vb. n. Perplexing.] [L. perplexari. See Perplex, a.]
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To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts.
No artful wildness to perplex the scene.
--Pope.What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view.
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To embarrass; to puzzle; to distract; to bewilder; to confuse; to trouble with ambiguity, suspense, or anxiety. ``Perplexd beyond self-explication.''
--Shak.We are perplexed, but not in despair.
--2 Cor. iv. 8.We can distinguish no general truths, or at least shall be apt to perplex the mind.
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To plague; to vex; to tormen.
--Glanvill.Syn: To entangle; involve; complicate; embarrass; puzzle; bewilder; confuse; distract. See Embarrass.
Perplexing \Per*plex"ing\, a.
Embarrassing; puzzling; troublesome. ``Perplexing thoughts.''
--Milton.
Wiktionary
1 confusing or puzzling 2 bewildering v
(present participle of perplex English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "perplexing".
Morovian Agrostology both perplexing and disturbing and has had any number of royal rows with him, during which he has tried to convince the boy to drop his study of grass in favor of more fitting pursuits.
Though perplexing to his palate, it was anything but unpleasant, despite the immediate and unsettling proximity of its ambulatory alien origins.
Perhaps our mysterious Tupak Soiree was actually a master hypnotist, a mentalist who spun a fine, perplexing web of interwoven .
Formally, Perplexing Poultry was about the idea that space can be thought of as a quasicrystal, that is, as a nonrepeating tessellation of two kinds of polyhedral cell.
Existence had seemed simpler then: It was life or deathnone of these perplexing customs and slangish vernacular.
He was perplexing over the sails and rigging of a trimaran tied up to the dock.
Mehevi sought to enlighten my ignorance, but he failed as signally as when he had endeavoured to initiate me into the perplexing arcana of the taboo.
Even more perplexing were the facts that the Llano and Nenana complexes were contemporaneous and both seem to have appeared without precursors in very different parts of North America at almost exactly the same time.
The perplexing mushroom, Hypholoma perplexum, often grows in clusters, and so does the inky Coprinus, C.
But surely this is foreseeing, deliberating: are we not back at what was said at the beginning, that God did to this end give both the senses and the powers, however perplexing that giving be?
The bicycles obstructing the way, the unloved and unwashed stair carpet, the large and perplexing stain on the elderly wallpaper.
Even when his domestic problems are demon-strably acute, the courses of action he chooses to address them are often perplexing, such as the threat to Kuwait in 1994.
Even to me, a Mathematician of no mean standing, and the Grandfather of two most hopeful and perfectly regular Hexagons, to find myself in the midst of a crowd of rotating Polygons of the higher classes, is occasionally very perplexing.
Even in the serious and perplexing situation in which he found himself he could not help being amused with her unliterary notions of literature, her conventional and commonplace conceptions of it.
But the conduct of the novelists and the painters makes the task of the conservators of society doubly perplexing.