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To perplex someone is to amaze, baffle, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, mystify, or puzzle them. Perplexing things are hard to understand.
If you're perplexed, then you're confused. Different things perplex different people. In football, a tricky defense will perplex a quarterback. Complicated formulas can perplex math students. When people do weird things, it can be perplexing. Anything hard to understand might perplex you. Perplexing also means to make something more complicated. So when you see the word perplex, think "Huh?"
WORD FAMILY
perplex: perplexed, perplexes, perplexing/perplexed: perplexedly, perplexity, unperplexed/perplexing: perplexingly/perplexity: perplexities
USAGE EXAMPLES
What makes some of these real-life cold cases even more perplexing is that the victims are unidentified.
Time(Jul 10, 2014)
He ceased with the wig; he looked at me, perplexed.
Literature(Jul 10, 2014)
One concerns a perplexingly wide spread among the pollsters.
Economist(Jul 10, 2014)
For a tomboy on the cusp of adolescence, it was a perplexing film.
The Guardian(Jul 10, 2014)
Dana is part of an ongoing effort to solve a perplexing mystery.
Nature(Jul 09, 2014)
1
vbe a mystery or bewildering to
Synonyms:
amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex
2
vmake more complicated
Synonyms:
complicate
Antonyms:
simplify
make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent
perplex

[verb]

= puzzle, baffle, bewilder, confound, confuse, mystify, stump

per·plex
\\pər-ˈpleks\\ transitive verb
 ETYMOLOGY  obsolete perplex, adjective, involved, perplexed, from Latin perplexus, from per- thoroughly + plexus involved, from past participle of plectere to braid, twine — more at per-, ply
 DATE  1593
1. to make unable to grasp something clearly or to think logically and decisively about something
    her attitude perplexes me
    a perplexing problem
2. to make intricate or involved : complicate
Synonyms: see puzzle

perplex

verb
/pəˈpleks/
/pərˈpleks/
[usually passive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they perplex
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he / she / it perplexes
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past simple perplexed
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past participle perplexed
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-ing form perplexing
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  1. perplex somebody | it perplexes somebody that… if something perplexes you, it makes you confused or worried because you do not understand it 迷惑；使困惑synonym puzzle
    • They were perplexed by her response.她的答复令他们困惑不解。
    Word Originlate 15th cent. (as the adjective perplexed): from the obsolete adjective perplex ‘bewildered’, from Latin perplexus ‘entangled’, based on plexus ‘interwoven’, from the verb plectere.
perplex

verb
1 she was perplexed by her husband's moodiness
PUZZLE , baffle, mystify, bemuse, bewilder, confound, confuse, nonplus, disconcert, keep someone guessing, dumbfound, throw, throw/catch someone off balance, get, exercise, worry, befuddle, fuddle, addle, fog; informal flummox, be all Greek to, discombobulate, stump, bamboozle, floor, beat, faze, make someone scratch their head, fox; archaic wilder, distract, gravel, maze, pose, cause to be at a stand.
See AWKWARD SYNONYMS at puzzle.

2 it is possible to perplex the question
COMPLICATE , make complicated/complex, confuse, make obscure/unclear, obscure, obfuscate, cloud, befog, blur, muddle, mix up; muddy the waters; rare ravel.
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perplex
per·plex / p[5plZks ; pE5pleks /verb T
1. if something perplexes you, it makes you feel confused and worried because it is difficult to understand使困惑，使茫然，使费解;SYNpuzzle
•Shea's symptoms perplexed the doctors.谢伊的症状令医生们感到困惑。
—perplexing adj:
•a perplexing problem令人不解的问题
perplex
1.VERB 动词使困惑；使担心；迷惑 If something perplexes you, it confuses and worries you because you do not understand it or because it causes you difficulty.

【语法信息】：V n

  • It perplexed him because he was tackling it the wrong way.

    由于处理不当，这个问题令他大伤脑筋。

perplex
1[VERB 动词] 使困惑；使担心；迷惑；If something perplexes you, it confuses and worries you because you do not understand it or because it causes you difficulty. [V n]

  • It perplexed him because he was tackling it the wrong way.

    由于处理不当，这个问题令他大伤脑筋。

关于 a perplexed manner（茫然不知所措的样子）等，参见 much 3 (5) E
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