Synonyms for Perplexing:

• adj.

  •abstruse (adjective)
  • pro found,
  • pro-founder,
  • involved,
  • pro-found,
  • un fathomable,
  • pro founder,
  • un-fathomable,
  • greek me.
  •all (adjective)
  • perplexing,
  • puzzling.
  •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.
  •baffling (adjective)
  • 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.
  •complex (adjective)
  • meandering,
  • convoluted,
  • round-about,
  • knotted,
  • obscure,
  • mazy,
  • paradoxical,
  • tangled,
  • inter-woven.
  •complicated (adjective)
  • elaborate,
  • mega factor,
  • snarled,
  • confounded,
  • wheels within wheels,
  • labyrinthine,
  • confused,
  • hi tech,
  • hi-tech,
  • inextricable,
  • gasser.
  •confusing (adjective)
  • disorienting.
  •cryptic (adjective)
  • in-explicable,
  • in explicable,
  • most delphian,
  • more delphic,
  • most uninformative,
  • more delphian,
  • un informative,
  • un-informative,
  • more uninformative,
  • most delphic.
  •different (adjective)
  • unusual.
  •difficult (adjective)
  • hard to explain,
  • hard to solve.
  •difficult to understand (adjective)
  • impenetrable,
  • worrying,
  • disconcerting,
  • mind-bending,
  • taxing.
  •disquieting (adjective)
  • 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.
  •disturbing (adjective)
  • 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.
  •embarrassing (adjective)
  • 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.
  •enigmatic/enigmatical (adjective)
  • in decipherable,
  • more stickling,
  • more sphinxlike,
  • sibylline,
  • more stumping,
  • in-decipherable,
  • teasing,
  • most stumping,
  • most enigmatic,
  • most sphinxlike,
  • most stickling.
  •funny (adjective)
  • funnier,
  • un-usual,
  • more curious,
  • un usual.
  •incomprehensible (adjective)
  • incognizable,
  • fathomless,
  • beyond grasp,
  • unknowable,
  • beats me,
  • uncomprehensible,
  • beyond one's grasp,
  • clear as mud,
  • ungraspable,
  • beyond comprehension.
  •inextricable (adjective)
  • in extricable,
  • in-extricable.
  •intricate (adjective)
  • more high tech,
  • hightech,
  • most hightech,
  • more daedal,
  • more high-tech,
  • most daedal,
  • most high tech,
  • more hightech,
  • most high-tech.
  •knotty (adjective)
  • Nodulous,
  • more reticular,
  • more ramified,
  • effortful,
  • most nodulous,
  • more nodulous,
  • reticular,
  • up-hill,
  • most ramified,
  • most reticular,
  • up hill.
  •misleading (adjective)
  • 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.
  •mysterious (adjective)
  • 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.
  •opaque (adjective)
  • Amphibological,
  • Imperceptive,
  • Nubilous.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • 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.
  •puzzling (adjective)
  • sur prising,
  • sur-prising,
  • un accountable.
  •strange (adjective)
  • 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.
  •thorny (adjective)
  • more harassing,
  • most harassing.
  •tough (adjective)
  • in tractable,
  • no piece of cake,
  • ex acting,
  • no piece cake,
  • un yielding,
  • in-tractable,
  • un-yielding,
  • ex-acting.
  •tricky (adjective)
  • pre-carious,
  • un stabler,
  • un stable,
  • quirky,
  • un stablest,
  • un dependable,
  • pre carious,
  • un-stablest,
  • un-dependable,
  • un-stable,
  • un-stabler.
  •twisted (adjective)
  • un sounder,
  • un-soundest,
  • un sound,
  • un-sound,
  • un-sounder.
  •uncomprehensible (adjective)
  • un comprehensible,
  • un-comprehensible.
  •unsettling (adjective)
  • un settling,
  • un-settling.
  •upsetting (adjective)
  • up setting,
  • up-setting.
  •vague (adjective)
  • 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.

  •
  • contorted.
  •bewildering (noun)
  • mystifying.
  •confusion (noun)
  • 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.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • pother,
  • disorientations,
  • complex,
  • blurrings,
  • mixup mystification,
  • Addlings,
  • stirring up,
  • disorientation.

• v.

  •complicating (verb)
  • Entangling,
  • Complicating,
  • Tangling,
  • Snarling,
  • confounding,
  • Involving.
  •confused (verb)
  • twisted.
  •confusing (verb)
  • clouding,
  • mistaking,
  • Misconstruing,
  • Muddling,
  • Flustering,
  • mixing up,
  • Obscuring.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • confusion.
  •
  • opaque.
  •awkward
  • embarrassing.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • 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.

Paraphrases for Perplexing:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    puzzling, confusing, baffling.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    appalling, elusive, stunning, disappointing, remarkable, extraordinary.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    disconcerting, astonishing, incomprehensible, perplexed, embarrassing, surprising, staggering, striking, inexplicable, astounding, disturbing, startling, shocking, confused, unnerving, amazing, incredible, breathtaking, unintelligible.

Antonyms for Perplexing:

• adj.

  • difficult to understand
    easy, untroublesome, clear, simple, straightforward.

• p. pr. & vb. n.

  • Other antonyms:
    indisputable, plain, certain, lucid, distinct, manifest, indubitable, evident, unambiguous, obvious, unequivocal, unquestioned, perspicuous, unquestionable.