What is another word for perplexing?
692 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ pəplˈɛksɪŋ], [ pəplˈɛksɪŋ], [ p_ə_p_l_ˈɛ_k_s_ɪ_ŋ]
Perplexing is a word that means to cause confusion or puzzlement, and there are several synonyms that can be used to convey the same idea. The word "mystifying" can be used when something is difficult to understand or explain, while "bewildering" can be used when something is confusing or overwhelming. Another synonym for perplexing is "confounding," which means to cause confusion or surprise. "Baffling" is another word that means to confuse or puzzle, and "enigmatic" can be used to describe something that is mysterious or difficult to understand. In short, there are several words that can be used instead of perplexing to convey confusion or puzzlement.
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Similar words for perplexing:
- abstruse (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- awkward (adjective)
- baffling (adjective)
- complex (adjective)
- complicated (adjective)
- confusing (adjective)
- cryptic (adjective)
- different (adjective)
- difficult (adjective)
- difficult to understand (adjective)
- disquieting (adjective)
- disturbing (adjective)
- embarrassing (adjective)
- enigmatic/enigmatical (adjective)
- funny (adjective)
- incomprehensible (adjective)
- inextricable (adjective)
- intricate (adjective)
- knotty (adjective)
- misleading (adjective)
- mysterious (adjective)
- opaque (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- puzzling (adjective)
- strange (adjective)
- thorny (adjective)
- tough (adjective)
- tricky (adjective)
- twisted (adjective)
- uncomprehensible (adjective)
- unsettling (adjective)
- upsetting (adjective)
- vague (adjective)
- bewildering (noun)
- confusion (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- complicating (verb)
- confused (verb)
- confusing (verb)
- other synonyms
- awkward
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Perplexing:
adj.
• abstruse (adjective) • all (adjective) • awkward (adjective)- ill ease,
- un-timeliest,
- un timelier,
- more compromising,
- un-timely,
- un-comfortable,
- un-timelier,
- un timely,
- un-pleasant,
- in opportune,
- un timeliest,
- un comfortable,
- inconvenient,
- in-opportune,
- un pleasant,
- in-convenient,
- most compromising,
- painful,
- in convenient.
- hard understand,
- un clearer,
- be wildering,
- most bewildering,
- be-wildering,
- over one head,
- more bewildering,
- difficult understand,
- un clearest,
- over ones head,
- un-clear,
- un-clearest,
- un clear,
- un-clearer.
- elaborate,
- mega factor,
- snarled,
- confounded,
- wheels within wheels,
- labyrinthine,
- confused,
- hi tech,
- hi-tech,
- inextricable,
- gasser.
- in-explicable,
- in explicable,
- most delphian,
- more delphic,
- most uninformative,
- more delphian,
- un informative,
- un-informative,
- more uninformative,
- most delphic.
- dis-concerting,
- dis concerting,
- more troubling,
- most disconcerting,
- un-nerving,
- troubling,
- dis-quieting,
- most troubling,
- dis quieting,
- most unnerving,
- un nerving,
- more unnerving,
- more disconcerting.
- fore-boding,
- dis maying,
- most foreboding,
- dis-maying,
- dis-composing,
- more aggravating,
- de pressing,
- more agitating,
- more discomposing,
- most dismaying,
- impeding,
- more impeding,
- dis-comforting,
- more dismaying,
- dis composing,
- most aggravating,
- most impeding,
- de-pressing,
- most discomforting,
- most discomposing,
- more discomforting,
- dis comforting,
- most agitating,
- fore boding,
- more foreboding.
- in-commodious,
- more discommoding,
- un propitious,
- most discomfiting,
- un-easiest,
- un seemlier,
- most discommodious,
- most rattling,
- most exasperating,
- ex-asperating,
- most mortifying,
- more discomfiting,
- dis agreeable,
- more rattling,
- in commodious,
- un-seemlier,
- most distracting,
- uneasy,
- un-propitious,
- dis-commodious,
- unpropitious,
- ex asperating,
- un-easy,
- more exasperating,
- more distracting,
- more mortifying,
- more discommodious,
- un easier,
- un easiest,
- un-seemliest,
- most discommoding,
- un-seemly,
- un seemliest,
- dis-agreeable,
- dis commodious,
- un-easier,
- un seemly,
- un easy.
- in decipherable,
- more stickling,
- more sphinxlike,
- sibylline,
- more stumping,
- in-decipherable,
- teasing,
- most stumping,
- most enigmatic,
- most sphinxlike,
- most stickling.
- incognizable,
- fathomless,
- beyond grasp,
- unknowable,
- beats me,
- uncomprehensible,
- beyond one's grasp,
- clear as mud,
- ungraspable,
- beyond comprehension.
- more high tech,
- hightech,
- most hightech,
- more daedal,
- more high-tech,
- most daedal,
- most high tech,
- more hightech,
- most high-tech.
- Nodulous,
- more reticular,
- more ramified,
- effortful,
- most nodulous,
- more nodulous,
- reticular,
- up-hill,
- most ramified,
- most reticular,
- up hill.
- mis-leading,
- most demagogic,
- more demagogic,
- dis ingenuous,
- most beguiling,
- more casuistical,
- dis-ingenuous,
- most casuistical,
- more deluding,
- most sophistical,
- mis leading,
- in accurate,
- more deceiving,
- more sophistical,
- most deceiving,
- most deluding.
- in-soluble,
- un-known,
- un canniest,
- most alchemistic,
- un-natural,
- un-cannier,
- un-canny,
- un known,
- un-canniest,
- more astrological,
- un canny,
- most necromantic,
- magical,
- more transcendental,
- un cannier,
- more necromantic,
- most astrological,
- in soluble,
- more alchemistic.
- disturbing,
- difficult,
- thorny,
- troublous,
- sphinxlike,
- mysterious,
- touch and go,
- tough,
- perturbing,
- alchemistic,
- Discommodious,
- knotty,
- vague,
- casuistical,
- enigmatical,
- confusing,
- strange,
- intricate,
- upsetting,
- high tech,
- demagogic,
- astrological,
- misleading,
- unheard of,
- tricky,
- hard to understand,
- over head,
- incomprehensible,
- abstruse,
- funny,
- awkward,
- enigmatic,
- high-tech,
- complicated,
- Daedal,
- unsettling,
- clear as dishwater,
- sophistical,
- necromantic,
- difficult to understand,
- uninformative,
- disquieting,
- cryptic,
- Stickling,
- baffling,
- extra ordinary,
- beyond one,
- unexplicit,
- imprecise.
- in-experienced,
- farout,
- un commoner,
- un seasoned,
- un-seasoned,
- extra-ordinary,
- un accustomed,
- un-accustomed,
- in experienced,
- un-common,
- un-commoner,
- un commonest,
- un common.
- in tractable,
- no piece of cake,
- ex acting,
- no piece cake,
- un yielding,
- in-tractable,
- un-yielding,
- ex-acting.
- pre-carious,
- un stabler,
- un stable,
- quirky,
- un stablest,
- un dependable,
- pre carious,
- un-stablest,
- un-dependable,
- un-stable,
- un-stabler.
- more generalized,
- in distinct,
- un-sure,
- mis understood,
- in-distinct,
- more unexplicit,
- ill defined,
- most generalized,
- most unexplicit,
- un-specified,
- unspecified,
- un specified,
- in-definite,
- un explicit,
- in determinate,
- un sure,
- mis-understood,
- illdefined,
- un-explicit,
- un-settled,
- most imprecise,
- in definite,
- un-determined,
- more blurred,
- un settled.
n.
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- contorted.
- de moralization,
- dis arranging,
- dumbfoundings,
- dis-traction,
- be-wilderments,
- embarrassings,
- dis traction,
- Clutterings,
- dis-tractions,
- de-moralization,
- stirring ups,
- de-moralizations,
- embroilings,
- abashings,
- be-fuddling,
- mixup mystifications,
- befuddlings,
- dis-orientation,
- up settings,
- perplexings,
- dis orientation,
- dis-arranging,
- confoundings,
- be wilderments,
- be-wilderment,
- discomfitings,
- be fuddling,
- upsettings,
- de moralizations,
- up-settings,
- dis orientations,
- un-settlings,
- dis tractions,
- be wilderment,
- disturbings,
- dis-orientations,
- tanglings,
- obscurings,
- un settlings,
- unsettlings,
- disarrangings.
v.
• complicating (verb) • confused (verb) • confusing (verb)Other synonyms:
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- confusion.
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- opaque.
- demoralize,
- arcane,
- dazzling,
- perturb,
- uncertain,
- crossing,
- vexing,
- rarifying,
- indeterminate,
- dark,
- delphic,
- Riddling,
- befuddle,
- unintelligible,
- irritating,
- astound,
- Quandaries,
- perplex,
- commotion,
- conquer,
- Producing,
- elusive,
- difficulty,
- discombobulate,
- recondite,
- harsh,
- queering,
- crossbreed,
- occult,
- equivocal,
- messy,
- disrupt,
- deep,
- disarray,
- confuse,
- drumming,
- disarrange,
- foreign,
- outsmarting,
- Thrumming,
- astonish,
- crabbed,
- exhausting,
- suffering,
- alter,
- disordered,
- amazing,
- disorderly,
- problematic,
- Generating,
- get,
- absurd,
- Irksome,
- bedevil,
- disturb,
- conflicting,
- impossible,
- unfamiliar,
- frustrating,
- chafing,
- discompose,
- conveying,
- fuddle,
- complicate,
- doubtful,
- Experiencing,
- winding,
- Aiming,
- inexplicable,
- daedalean,
- regulating,
- oxymoronic,
- raging,
- waffling,
- ticking,
- Bilking,
- unaccountable,
- fuzzy,
- problematical,
- overreaching,
- Graveling,
- Obtaining,
- Bedeviling,
- dilemma,
- unsolvable,
- critical,
- adapt,
- unexplainable,
- Vanquishing,
- curious,
- Afflicting,
- astonishing,
- ambiguous,
- pandemonium,
- predicament,
- hypothetical,
- labyrinthian,
- undecipherable,
- delicate,
- bewilder,
- amaze,
- plight,
- Scotching,
- indistinct,
- arriving,
- unclear,
- starting,
- incongruous,
- indecipherable,
- transcendental,
- Riling,
- supernatural,
- Embroiling,
- blurred,
- cheating,
- Siring,
- Receiving,
- contracting,
- abash,
- annoying,
- obfuscate,
- embarrass,
- bewilderment,
- mystic,
- tumult,
- hazy,
- botched,
- stimulating,
- Abashing,
- crisscross,
- bewildering,
- Fathering,
- Harassing,
- ticklish,
- Scrambling,
- quandary,
- Bamboozling,
- Discomposing,
- Fuddling,
- cramped,
- perplexity,
- agitate,
- sinuous,
- troublesome,
- higgledy-piggledy,
- posing,
- insoluble,
- thumping,
- Dazing,
- uncanny,
- clutter,
- Devilling,
- muddle-headed,
- hard,
- Chiselling,
- bizarre,
- purchasing,
- Circumventing,
- unimaginable,
- questionable,
- bemusing,
- dismaying,
- cross,
- refining,
- maze-like,
- apocryphal,
- experimental,
- scramming,
- stupefying,
- disturbance,
- gnarled,
- astounding,
- inscrutable,
- abstract,
- jumbled,
- tortuous,
- thwarting,
- outwitting,
- Discomfiting,
- derange,
- gordian,
- Nettling,
- dumbfounding,
- shelling,
- disorder,
- arresting,
- byzantine,
- Bunking,
- irregular,
- dubious,
- Mothering,
- flabbergasting,
- pounding,
- Elaborating,
- fetching,
- inconceivable,
- aggravate,
- incurring,
- stumping,
- Deviling,
- contradictory,
- muddled,
- Sustaining,
- annoy,
- confoundedly,
- mystical,
- alchemic,
- unfathomable,
- foiling,
- flapping,
- Distracting,
- Addling,
- inducing,
- disorganized,
- disconcert,
- confound,
- nonplus,
- agitation,
- causing,
- preternatural,
- bemuse,
- off-putting,
- acquiring,
- profound,
- Encumbering,
- chaos,
- Bothering,
- sensitive,
- outfoxing,
- developing,
- Chiseling,
- weird,
- perplexedly,
- bedlam,
- embarrassment,
- fixing,
- Capturing,
- indefinite,
- self-contradictory,
- illogical,
- discomfit,
- Nonplussing,
- Commencing,
- distressing,
- crushing,
- scabrous,
- staggering,
- inconsistent,
- cynical,
- improbable,
- distraction,
- stunning,
- unnerving,
- Engendering,
- distract,
- Daedalian,
- trouncing,
- tormenting,
- unexplained.
How to use "Perplexing" in context?
Nobody can fully understand everything, which makes life interesting. With so many things to explore, there's something always perplexing us. Whether it's a mystery we can't solve, or an event that leaves us scratching our head, there's always something new to take in. That's what makes life so exciting, and why we can't help but keep looking for new information.
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