Dictionary Definition
perplexed adj : full or difficulty or confusion
or bewilderment; "perplexed language"; "perplexed state of the
world" [ant: unperplexed]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛkst
Adjective
- Confused or puzzled.
- Bewildered.
Translations
Confused or puzzled
- Finnish: ymmällään, hämmentynyt
Bewildered
- Finnish: ymmällään, hämmentynyt
Verb
perplexed- past of perplex
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Byzantine, addled, at a loss, at a nonplus,
at a stand, at a standstill, at an impasse, baffled, balled up, balled-up,
bamboozled, beat, bewildered, beyond one,
bothered, buffaloed, chaotic, complex, complicated, confounded, confused, convoluted, crabbed, cramp, daedal, dazed, devious, difficult, discomposed, disconcerted, disordered, disorganized, disturbed, elaborate, embarrassed, embrangled, entangled, floored, flustered, fluttered, fouled up, fuddled, fussed, garbled, hard, hard to understand, implicated, in a dilemma, in
a jumble, in a pother, in a pucker, in a stew, in a sweat, in a
swivet, in a tizzy, in suspense, intricate, involuted, involved, jumbled, knotted, knotty, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, licked, loused up, many-faceted,
matted, mazy, meandering, messed up, mixed
up, mixed-up, mucked up, muddled, multifarious, mystified, nonplussed, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, on tenterhooks,
overtechnical,
perturbed, put-out,
puzzled, ramified, rattled, roundabout, ruffled, scrambled, screwed up,
shaken, shook, shuffled, snarled, stuck, stumped, subtle, tangled, tangly, thrown, tough, twisted, unsettled, upset