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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 FAMILYperplex: perplexed, perplexes, perplexing/perplexed: perplexedly, perplexity, unperplexed/perplexing: perplexingly/perplexity: perplexities
USAGE EXAMPLESWhat 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)
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