perplexing
adjective
[ pəˈplɛksɪŋ ]
• completely baffling; very puzzling.
• "a perplexing problem"
perplex
verb
• make (someone) feel completely baffled.
• "she was perplexed by her husband's moodiness"
Similar:
puzzle,
baffle,
mystify,
bemuse,
bewilder,
confound,
confuse,
nonplus,
disconcert,
dumbfound,
throw,
get,
exercise,
worry,
befuddle,
fuddle,
addle,
fog,
flummox,
be all Greek to,
discombobulate,
stump,
bamboozle,
floor,
beat,
faze,
fox,
wilder,
distract,
gravel,
maze,
pose,
cause to be at a stand,
puzzled,
baffled,
mystified,
bemused,
bewildered,
confused,
nonplussed,
disconcerted,
dumbfounded,
worried,
at a loss,
at sea,
befuddled,
fuddled,
addled,
flummoxed,
bamboozled,
discombobulated,
stumped,
fazed,
beaten,
bushed,
wildered,
distracted,
mazed,
puzzling,
baffling,
mystifying,
mysterious,
bewildering,
confusing,
disconcerting,
worrying,
unaccountable,
difficult to understand,
inexplicable,
impenetrable,
unfathomable,
paradoxical,
peculiar,
funny,
strange,
weird,
odd,
beyond one,
complex,
complicated,
difficult,
hard,
taxing,
knotty,
thorny,
ticklish,
involved,
intricate,
convoluted,
labyrinthine,
Byzantine,
spiny,
mind-bending,
wildering,
Origin:
late 15th century (as the adjective perplexed ): from the obsolete adjective perplex ‘bewildered’, from Latin perplexus ‘entangled’, based on plexus ‘interwoven’, from the verb plectere .
