What is another word for baffling?
1030 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ bˈaflɪŋ], [ bˈaflɪŋ], [ b_ˈa_f_l_ɪ_ŋ]
The term "baffling" refers to something that is perplexing, confusing or mystifying. To describe such a situation or person, one may use various synonyms like enigmatic, unintelligible, confounding, and incomprehensible. The term 'puzzling' connotes a sense of a problem that requires solving, whereas 'mystifying' refers to a perplexing situation that defies explanation. 'Confusing' implies a state of uncertainty, whereas 'incomprehensible' suggests that the matter is difficult to understand. 'Elusive' relates to something that is difficult to capture or grasp. Overall, a range of synonyms like perplexing, mysterious, bewildering, obscure, and inscrutable can be used to describe something that is baffling.
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Similar words for baffling:
- confusing (adjective)
- difficult (adjective)
- hindering (adjective)
- incomprehensible (adjective)
- inexplicable (adjective)
- insoluble (adjective)
- opaque (adjective)
- unaccountable (adjective)
- unfathomable (adjective)
- unintelligible (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- elusive (adjective)
- impenetrable (adjective)
- knotty (adjective)
- mysterious (adjective)
- over one's head (adjective)
- perplexing (adjective)
- puzzling (adjective)
- thorny (adjective)
- tough (adjective)
- uncomprehensible (adjective)
- unexplainable (adjective)
- confusing (verb)
- hindering (verb)
Synonyms for Baffling:
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adj.
• confusing • difficult • hindering- Clogging ,
- Complicating ,
- Cramping ,
- Crimping ,
- Damming ,
- Delaying ,
- Detaining ,
- Deterring ,
- Encumbering ,
- Entangling ,
- Entrapping ,
- Fouling ,
- Handicapping ,
- Obstructing ,
- Resisting ,
- Restraining ,
- Snagging ,
- Snarling ,
- Tangling ,
- blocking ,
- bottleneck ,
- burdensome ,
- choking ,
- congesting ,
- constipating ,
- constraining ,
- crippling ,
- frustrating ,
- hindering ,
- impeding ,
- inhibiting ,
- restricting ,
- thwarting .
- difficult catch ,
- in definable ,
- in substantial ,
- in tangible ,
- in-definable ,
- in-substantial ,
- in-tangible ,
- mis leading ,
- mis-leading ,
- more elusory ,
- more phantom ,
- more stonewalling ,
- more unspecific ,
- most elusory ,
- most illusory ,
- most phantom ,
- most stonewalling ,
- most unspecific ,
- un specific ,
- un-specific .
- in cognizable ,
- in discernible ,
- in scrutable ,
- in-cognizable ,
- in-discernible ,
- in-scrutable ,
- more delphic ,
- more incognizable ,
- more ungraspable ,
- more unknowable ,
- most delphic ,
- most incognizable ,
- most ungraspable ,
- most unknowable ,
- un graspable ,
- un knowable ,
- un-graspable ,
- un-knowable .
- mazier ,
- maziest ,
- more gordian ,
- more nodulous ,
- more ramified ,
- more reticular ,
- most gordian ,
- most nodulous ,
- most ramified ,
- most reticular ,
- up hill ,
- up-hill .
- more alchemistic ,
- more astrological ,
- more necromantic ,
- more sphinxlike ,
- more transcendental ,
- most alchemistic ,
- most astrological ,
- most necromantic ,
- most sphinxlike ,
- un cannier ,
- un canniest ,
- un canny ,
- un known ,
- un-cannier ,
- un-canniest ,
- un-canny ,
- un-known ,
- un-natural .
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v.
• confusing • hindering Other relevant words:
- abysmal ,
- abyssal ,
- addled ,
- administration ,
- adulterous ,
- agony ,
- alchemical ,
- alchemistical ,
- alien ,
- altering ,
- amaze ,
- angry ,
- annoyance ,
- apart ,
- arduous ,
- arguable ,
- at odds ,
- at sea ,
- awe-inspiring ,
- awesome ,
- awful ,
- awing ,
- backbreaking ,
- badly ,
- badness ,
- baffle board ,
- baffled ,
- balky ,
- banging ,
- barbed ,
- barbellate ,
- barrage ,
- barrage fire ,
- bass ,
- battery ,
- beat ,
- beating ,
- becloud ,
- bedim ,
- befog ,
- befuddled ,
- bemused ,
- benighted ,
- bewilder ,
- bewildered ,
- big ,
- bilk ,
- black ,
- blackball ,
- blazing ,
- bleary ,
- blinding ,
- block ,
- blot out ,
- blue ,
- blur ,
- blurry ,
- bombardment ,
- bothersome ,
- briary ,
- briery ,
- bristled ,
- bristly ,
- broad ,
- broken ,
- brumous ,
- buffeting ,
- building complex ,
- bully ,
- bungled ,
- bunglesome ,
- burred ,
- burry ,
- butterfingered ,
- buying ,
- cabalistic ,
- carrefour ,
- causation ,
- changeable ,
- chaotic ,
- charming ,
- cheat ,
- chokepoint ,
- cloud ,
- clouded ,
- clouding up ,
- clump ,
- clumsy ,
- clunk ,
- cockeyed ,
- communicable ,
- composite ,
- concentrated ,
- confining ,
- confounded ,
- confuse ,
- constriction ,
- constrictive ,
- contagious ,
- contractable ,
- conveyance ,
- conveyance of title ,
- conveyancing ,
- convolute ,
- coordination compound ,
- cover ,
- covering ,
- cross ,
- crossover ,
- crossroad ,
- crosswalk ,
- crossway ,
- cryptical ,
- cumbersome ,
- curb ,
- dapper ,
- darkness ,
- debacle ,
- deceptive ,
- deciding ,
- decussate ,
- deeply ,
- defective ,
- delicate ,
- delphian ,
- dense ,
- derisory ,
- detection ,
- determinant ,
- determinative ,
- development ,
- dim ,
- dingy ,
- dirty ,
- disabling ,
- disconnected ,
- disconsolate ,
- discrepant ,
- disjointed ,
- dismal ,
- disorganised ,
- disoriented ,
- disputable ,
- dissatisfactory ,
- distorted ,
- distress ,
- distressful ,
- distressing ,
- divinatory ,
- dour ,
- drab ,
- draining ,
- drear ,
- dreary ,
- drubbing ,
- dubitable ,
- dumbfound ,
- dumbfounding ,
- dumfounding ,
- eccentric ,
- eclipse ,
- eldritch ,
- electronic jamming ,
- elusion ,
- ephemeral ,
- espial ,
- excruciation ,
- exhilarating ,
- extraneous ,
- eye-popping ,
- faint ,
- fastener ,
- fastening ,
- fillet ,
- firmly ,
- fix ,
- fixation ,
- fixture ,
- flakey ,
- flaky ,
- floor ,
- flummox ,
- fog ,
- foggy ,
- foil ,
- ford ,
- forged ,
- formidable ,
- foul ,
- freakish ,
- freaky ,
- frustrate ,
- frustration ,
- frustrative ,
- fulgent ,
- fulgurant ,
- fulgurous ,
- fundamental ,
- funny ,
- furious ,
- furrowed ,
- fuzzed ,
- gallant ,
- galling ,
- garbled ,
- get ,
- getting ,
- glaring ,
- glary ,
- gloomy ,
- glowering ,
- glum ,
- goon ,
- governance ,
- government ,
- government activity ,
- gravel ,
- grim ,
- grueling ,
- gruelling ,
- ham-fisted ,
- ham-handed ,
- hammer ,
- hammering ,
- handless ,
- hardened ,
- hardly ,
- hardy ,
- haze over ,
- heavily ,
- heavy ,
- heavy-handed ,
- hidden ,
- hide ,
- high-risk ,
- holdfast ,
- hood ,
- hoodlum ,
- hooligan ,
- hot ,
- hugger-mugger ,
- humongous ,
- humoring ,
- hurt ,
- hybridisation ,
- hybridization ,
- idiotic ,
- ill at ease ,
- ill-chosen ,
- ill-defined ,
- implicit ,
- in question ,
- inapt ,
- incapacitating ,
- incertain ,
- incognoscible ,
- incompetent ,
- indefinable ,
- indissoluble ,
- inducement ,
- indulgence ,
- inept ,
- inflexible ,
- insidious ,
- insolvable ,
- intemperate ,
- intemperately ,
- interbreeding ,
- intersectant ,
- intersection ,
- irritation ,
- irritative ,
- isolated ,
- jam ,
- jaunty ,
- kabbalistic ,
- kerb ,
- knockout ,
- laborious ,
- lacing ,
- late ,
- laughable ,
- left ,
- left over ,
- left-handed ,
- leftover ,
- lepidote ,
- leprose ,
- licking ,
- limiting ,
- lissom ,
- lissome ,
- lithe ,
- lithesome ,
- lost ,
- ludicrous ,
- magic ,
- mantic ,
- marvellous ,
- marvelous ,
- masking ,
- mazed ,
- medium ,
- mend ,
- mending ,
- mind-blowing ,
- mired ,
- miscegenation ,
- miserable ,
- misinterpretation ,
- misrepresented ,
- mist ,
- misty ,
- misunderstanding ,
- mixed-up ,
- moody ,
- moot ,
- morose ,
- mortifying ,
- mussy ,
- mutually exclusive ,
- muzzy ,
- mystify ,
- natty ,
- necromantical ,
- nettlesome ,
- neutering ,
- night ,
- nighttime ,
- nonnatural ,
- nonplus ,
- nonsensical ,
- obliterate ,
- obstructive ,
- occult arts ,
- oceanic abyss ,
- off-the-wall ,
- onerous ,
- opponent ,
- oracular ,
- order ,
- ordination ,
- orphic ,
- otherworldly ,
- out of the question ,
- outlandish ,
- outre ,
- overcloud ,
- painful ,
- particular ,
- passing ,
- pernicious ,
- perplex ,
- perverted ,
- pesky ,
- pestering ,
- pestiferous ,
- plaguey ,
- plaguy ,
- pose ,
- pound ,
- preposterous ,
- prickly ,
- punishing ,
- punk ,
- puzzle ,
- qabalistic ,
- queer ,
- raffish ,
- rakish ,
- rambling ,
- raw ,
- redoubtable ,
- regretful ,
- regulate ,
- regulation ,
- religious mystic ,
- remaining ,
- repair ,
- reparation ,
- reticulate ,
- rich ,
- ridiculous ,
- risky ,
- roughneck ,
- rowdy ,
- ruffian ,
- rum ,
- rummy ,
- saturnine ,
- scaly ,
- scattered ,
- scotch ,
- scurfy ,
- secret ,
- sensational ,
- sensible ,
- severe ,
- severely ,
- shadow ,
- shadowy ,
- short-lived ,
- showing ,
- sibyllic ,
- singular ,
- sinister ,
- sinuate ,
- slaughter ,
- slip ,
- snappy ,
- sorcerous ,
- sore ,
- sorry ,
- sound ,
- sour ,
- special ,
- speculative ,
- spiffy ,
- spiny ,
- spiritualist ,
- spoil ,
- spoiled ,
- spoilt ,
- spotting ,
- spruce ,
- spying ,
- stalwart ,
- start ,
- stick ,
- sticky ,
- stimulant ,
- stout ,
- strangling ,
- strangulation ,
- street fighter ,
- strong ,
- strong-armer ,
- stupefy ,
- sullen ,
- supple ,
- surd ,
- taking ,
- tall ,
- taxing ,
- teasing ,
- tempered ,
- tempestuous ,
- tender ,
- tentative ,
- the absurd ,
- thick ,
- thrashing ,
- throb ,
- throbbing ,
- throttling ,
- thud ,
- thug ,
- thump ,
- thwart ,
- tick ,
- tiring ,
- toilsome ,
- topsy-turvy ,
- touchy ,
- toughie ,
- trailing ,
- transient ,
- transitory ,
- transmissible ,
- transmittable ,
- treated ,
- trench ,
- troubling ,
- twist ,
- twisting ,
- twisty ,
- two-timing ,
- unacceptable ,
- unbelievable ,
- uncollectible ,
- uncompromising ,
- unconnected ,
- unconvincing ,
- undefined ,
- underdeveloped ,
- unearthly ,
- uneasy ,
- unenviable ,
- uneven ,
- unexpended ,
- unfathomed ,
- unfit ,
- ungainly ,
- unknown ,
- unlikely ,
- unlogical ,
- unmanageable ,
- unmatched ,
- unmated ,
- unnoticeable ,
- unordered ,
- unpaired ,
- unplumbed ,
- unresolvable ,
- unresolved ,
- unsatisfying ,
- unsealed ,
- unsettled ,
- unsoluble ,
- unsound ,
- unsounded ,
- unsporting ,
- unsportsmanlike ,
- unsung ,
- unsure ,
- unusual ,
- unvoiced ,
- upset ,
- vatic ,
- vatical ,
- veil ,
- vex ,
- vexation ,
- vexatious ,
- vexing ,
- viewing ,
- voiceless ,
- voluminous ,
- wakeless ,
- walloping ,
- wandering ,
- wearing ,
- wearying ,
- whacking ,
- whipping ,
- whopping ,
- wickedness ,
- wiggly ,
- wild ,
- wind ,
- winning ,
- wispy ,
- witching ,
- wizard ,
- wizardly ,
- woe ,
- woolly ,
- woolly-headed ,
- wooly ,
- wooly-minded ,
- worrisome ,
- worrying ,
- wretched ,
- wyrd ,
- yob ,
- yobbo ,
- yobo .
- Abashing ,
- Aiming ,
- Babying ,
- Bamboozling ,
- Bilking ,
- Botching ,
- Bothering ,
- Bunking ,
- Capturing ,
- Chiselling ,
- Coddling ,
- Commencing ,
- Crucifying ,
- Daedal ,
- Daedalian ,
- Defeating ,
- Deranging ,
- Devilling ,
- Discomfiting ,
- Discomposing ,
- Distracting ,
- Dunning ,
- Endangering ,
- Engendering ,
- Evading ,
- Experiencing ,
- Exposing ,
- Fathering ,
- Generating ,
- Influencing ,
- Irksome ,
- Mazing ,
- Modulating ,
- Mothering ,
- Muffing ,
- Nonplussing ,
- Obtaining ,
- Preventing ,
- Producing ,
- Receiving ,
- Retarding ,
- Riling ,
- Scotching ,
- Scrambling ,
- Siring ,
- Spanning ,
- Sustaining ,
- Thrumming ,
- Vanquishing ,
- Vitiating ,
- abstruse ,
- absurd ,
- acquiring ,
- alchemic ,
- amazing ,
- ambiguous ,
- annoying ,
- arcane ,
- arresting ,
- arriving ,
- astonishing ,
- astounding ,
- awkward ,
- baffle ,
- balking ,
- bemusing ,
- bewildering ,
- bizarre ,
- blurred ,
- bobbling ,
- botched ,
- bumbling ,
- bungling ,
- byzantine ,
- causing ,
- chafing ,
- cheating ,
- complex ,
- complicated ,
- conflicting ,
- confounding ,
- confused ,
- contracting ,
- contradictory ,
- conveying ,
- convoluted ,
- cosseting ,
- crossbreeding ,
- crossing ,
- curious ,
- daedalean ,
- dark ,
- dashing ,
- debatable ,
- deep ,
- deflowering ,
- delphic ,
- determining ,
- developing ,
- difficult ,
- disappointing ,
- disconcerting ,
- dismaying ,
- disordered ,
- disorderly ,
- disorganized ,
- disturbing ,
- doubtful ,
- drumming ,
- dubious ,
- eluding ,
- elusive ,
- embarrassing ,
- equivocal ,
- exhausting ,
- featherbedding ,
- fetching ,
- fixing ,
- flabbergasting ,
- flooring ,
- fluffing ,
- foiling ,
- foreign ,
- fumbling ,
- fuzzy ,
- gnarled ,
- gordian ,
- governing ,
- hard ,
- hazy ,
- higgledy-piggledy ,
- hybridizing ,
- illogical ,
- impenetrable ,
- impossible ,
- imprecise ,
- improbable ,
- incomprehensible ,
- inconceivable ,
- incongruous ,
- inconsistent ,
- incurring ,
- indefinite ,
- indistinct ,
- inducing ,
- indulging ,
- inexact ,
- inexplicable ,
- inexplicit ,
- inscrutable ,
- intersecting ,
- intricate ,
- involved ,
- irritating ,
- jumbled ,
- knobbed ,
- knotted ,
- knotty ,
- labyrinthian ,
- labyrinthine ,
- magical ,
- maze-like ,
- mazy ,
- messy ,
- mishandling ,
- misleading ,
- mollycoddling ,
- muddle-headed ,
- muddled ,
- mystic ,
- mystical ,
- non-specific ,
- obscure ,
- occult ,
- odd ,
- off-putting ,
- opaque ,
- ordering ,
- outfoxing ,
- outsmarting ,
- outwitting ,
- over head ,
- over one's head ,
- oxymoronic ,
- pampering ,
- paradoxical ,
- peculiar ,
- perturbing ,
- pounding ,
- preternatural ,
- problematic ,
- problematical ,
- profound ,
- purchasing ,
- puzzling ,
- queering ,
- raging ,
- recondite ,
- regularising ,
- regularizing ,
- regulating ,
- ruffianly ,
- rugged ,
- scabrous ,
- scramming ,
- screening ,
- self-contradictory ,
- sensitive ,
- shelling ,
- sinuous ,
- snarled ,
- staggering ,
- starting ,
- stimulating ,
- strange ,
- stumping ,
- stunning ,
- stupefying ,
- subtle ,
- suffering ,
- supernatural ,
- tangled ,
- thorny ,
- thumping ,
- ticking ,
- ticklish ,
- tormenting ,
- tortuous ,
- tough ,
- tracking ,
- transcendental ,
- trouncing ,
- twisted ,
- unaccountable ,
- uncanny ,
- uncertain ,
- uncomprehensible ,
- undecipherable ,
- unexplainable ,
- unexplained ,
- unfamiliar ,
- unfathomable ,
- unimaginable ,
- unintelligible ,
- unnerving ,
- unsettling ,
- unsolvable ,
- unspecific ,
- upsetting ,
- vague ,
- weird ,
- winding .
How to use "Baffling" in context?
We all have those moments when we don't understand something. Maybe it's a complex math problem we can't seem to solve, or a new slang term someone threw our way. But for some people, these instances of bafflement can be more persistent and frustrating than others. These are known as baffling disorders, and they can cause serious cognitive and emotional problems. Here are seven of the most baffling disorders.
1. Bizarre delusions and hallucinations
Most people suffer from bizarre delusions and hallucinations only once or twice in their lives.
Paraphrases for Baffling:
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Equivalence
-
Adjective
perplexing, puzzling.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
disappointing.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
confounding, confusing, troubling.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
confusing, disconcerting, disturbing, staggering, unnerving.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
bewildering, disconcerting.
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Adjective
Homophones for Baffling:
- belling, blueing, bubbling, babbling, bellowing, by all means, blench, bluing, blink away, bowling, boiling, bellying, balminess, bawling, bull nose, Blank Cheque, Bluenose, blooming, balenciaga, blowing, billowing, blank, blinks, blink, befooling, bulnesia, billings, bay lynx, balinese, belong, bulimic, blowing gas, buffalo wing, bluewing, bahia blanca, bowling shoe, bullnose, bobolink, bullying, blueness, balance, bubbliness, Blanc, bolanci, balanus, blank check, ballooning, billing, blennius, blemish, blanch, bull neck.
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