Synonyms for Puzzling:

• adj.

  •abstruse (adjective)
  • deep,
  • greek to me,
  • subtle,
  • recondite,
  • intricate,
  • profound,
  • abstract,
  • muddy,
  • puzzling,
  • esoteric.
  •ambiguous (adjective)
  • dubious,
  • unintelligible,
  • uncertain,
  • tenebrous,
  • indefinite,
  • opaque,
  • doubtful,
  • indeterminate,
  • questionable,
  • inconclusive.
  •complex (adjective)
  • impenetrable,
  • winding,
  • mixed,
  • knotted,
  • undecipherable,
  • mazy,
  • rambling,
  • byzantine,
  • tortuous,
  • round-about,
  • circuitous,
  • Mingled,
  • snarled,
  • gordian,
  • crabbed,
  • disordered,
  • discursive,
  • muddled,
  • paradoxical,
  • interwoven,
  • disturbing,
  • involved,
  • sophisticated,
  • jumbled,
  • obscure,
  • excursive,
  • convoluted,
  • inter-woven,
  • inscrutable,
  • daedalean,
  • tangled,
  • entangled,
  • sinuous,
  • meandering.
  •complicated (adjective)
  • hi-tech,
  • fancy,
  • interlaced,
  • arduous,
  • gasser,
  • various,
  • can of worms,
  • mega factor,
  • wheels within wheels,
  • troublesome,
  • hi tech.
  •convoluted (adjective)
  • serpentine.
  •cryptic (adjective)
  • murky,
  • secretive,
  • strange,
  • delphic,
  • delphian,
  • apocryphal,
  • veiled,
  • evasive,
  • oracular.
  •curious (adjective)
  • marvelous,
  • unorthodox,
  • bizarre,
  • rare,
  • unique,
  • extraordinary,
  • extra ordinary,
  • rarest,
  • wonderful,
  • quaint,
  • novel,
  • exotic,
  • oddball,
  • singular,
  • unusual,
  • weird,
  • peculiar,
  • unconventional,
  • most novel,
  • remarkable,
  • unexpected.
  •dark (adjective)
  • not known.
  •difficult (adjective)
  • hard,
  • hard to explain,
  • hard to solve.
  •elusive (adjective)
  • difficult catch,
  • fugacious,
  • un-specific,
  • most elusory,
  • more phantom,
  • in-substantial,
  • most illusory,
  • in substantial,
  • in-definable,
  • in-tangible,
  • most unspecific,
  • in tangible,
  • more stonewalling,
  • most phantom,
  • evanescent,
  • more elusory,
  • in definable,
  • un specific,
  • more unspecific,
  • most stonewalling.
  •embarrassing (adjective)
  • dis-commodious,
  • more distracting,
  • more troubling,
  • inconvenient,
  • dis-concerting,
  • uneasy,
  • un easy,
  • in-commodious,
  • in commodious,
  • un-comfortable,
  • most discomfiting,
  • troubling,
  • more mortifying,
  • most distracting,
  • more discommodious,
  • more compromising,
  • un seemly,
  • un-seemly,
  • in opportune,
  • in-opportune,
  • un comfortable,
  • un-seemlier,
  • in convenient,
  • most compromising,
  • un seemliest,
  • unpropitious,
  • un easier,
  • un seemlier,
  • dis agreeable,
  • un-seemliest,
  • ex-asperating,
  • up-setting,
  • dis-agreeable,
  • un-easy,
  • most troubling,
  • most discommoding,
  • un propitious,
  • dis concerting,
  • more disconcerting,
  • ex asperating,
  • un-easiest,
  • dis commodious,
  • un-propitious,
  • more discomfiting,
  • more exasperating,
  • most discommodious,
  • more rattling,
  • most disconcerting,
  • in-convenient,
  • more discommoding,
  • most mortifying,
  • un-easier,
  • most rattling,
  • most exasperating,
  • un easiest,
  • up setting.
  •enigmatic/enigmatical (adjective)
  • in-decipherable,
  • in decipherable,
  • more sphinxlike,
  • sibylline,
  • most enigmatic,
  • more stumping,
  • teasing,
  • most sphinxlike,
  • most stickling,
  • more stickling,
  • most stumping.
  •equivocal (adjective)
  • clear as mud,
  • with mixed feelings,
  • muzzy,
  • hazy,
  • Amphibological,
  • unexplicit.
  •funny (adjective)
  • funnier.
  •implausible (adjective)
  • in conceivable,
  • un-substantial,
  • re-achier,
  • un-convincing,
  • re-achiest,
  • un reasonable,
  • re-achy,
  • wont wash,
  • re achiest,
  • reachier,
  • reachiest,
  • full holes,
  • re achy,
  • in credible,
  • re achier,
  • un convincing,
  • full of holes,
  • in-conceivable,
  • incredible,
  • un believable,
  • un-reasonable,
  • for birds,
  • wont hold water,
  • un substantial,
  • in-credible,
  • un-believable.
  •incoherent (adjective)
  • incohesive,
  • unvocal.
  •incomprehensible (adjective)
  • incognizable,
  • over head,
  • beyond one's grasp,
  • beats me,
  • unknowable,
  • beyond grasp,
  • fathomless,
  • ungraspable,
  • beyond comprehension,
  • uncomprehensible.
  •inexplicable (adjective)
  • undefinable,
  • unexplainable,
  • Inexplainable.
  •inexplicit (adjective)
  • in-explicit,
  • in explicit.
  •interesting (adjective)
  • intriguing.
  •knotty (adjective)
  • more nodulous,
  • Nodulous,
  • more ramified,
  • effortful,
  • most ramified,
  • most nodulous,
  • reticular,
  • most reticular,
  • up hill,
  • more reticular,
  • up-hill.
  •misleading (adjective)
  • mis-leading,
  • more deceiving,
  • most demagogic,
  • mis leading,
  • dis-ingenuous,
  • most casuistical,
  • more demagogic,
  • most deceiving,
  • more sophistical,
  • more casuistical,
  • most deluding,
  • most sophistical,
  • dis ingenuous,
  • more deluding,
  • in accurate.
  •mysterious (adjective)
  • more astrological,
  • un-canniest,
  • un-natural,
  • un known,
  • most alchemistic,
  • most necromantic,
  • more transcendental,
  • un-canny,
  • un-cannier,
  • un-known,
  • un canny,
  • magical,
  • most astrological,
  • un cannier,
  • more necromantic,
  • un canniest,
  • more alchemistic.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • curious,
  • inexplicit,
  • difficult,
  • breaking new ground,
  • dark,
  • alchemistic,
  • misleading,
  • enigmatic,
  • problematical,
  • Stickling,
  • Multivocal,
  • cryptic,
  • necromantic,
  • enigmatical,
  • problematic,
  • imprecise,
  • implausible,
  • Elusory,
  • beyond one,
  • sophistical,
  • out-standing,
  • tough,
  • perplexing,
  • sphinxlike,
  • difficult to catch,
  • vague,
  • abstruse,
  • won't hold water,
  • ambiguous,
  • inexplicable,
  • un-ordinary,
  • mysterious,
  • uninformative,
  • unaccountable,
  • complicated,
  • queer,
  • won't wash,
  • knotty,
  • clear as dishwater,
  • unspecific,
  • elusive,
  • funny,
  • polysemous,
  • casuistical,
  • reachy,
  • astrological,
  • equivocal,
  • demagogic,
  • mind-bending,
  • incomprehensible,
  • for the birds,
  • Discommodious.
  •perplexing (adjective)
  • most mindbending,
  • most mind bending,
  • mindbending,
  • more mindbending,
  • more mind-bending,
  • mind bending,
  • most mind-bending,
  • more mind bending.
  •problematic (adjective)
  • up for grabs,
  • dubitable.
  •problematical (adjective)
  • at issue,
  • in question,
  • in doubt.
  •puzzling (adjective)
  • surprising.
  •queer (adjective)
  • most outre,
  • un common,
  • un-hinged,
  • more outre,
  • dis quieting,
  • un-balanced,
  • un commonest,
  • un-common,
  • un hinged,
  • off wall,
  • un-commoner,
  • off the wall,
  • fly ball,
  • un commoner,
  • dis-quieting.
  •singular (adjective)
  • avantgarde,
  • un-wonted,
  • un-thinkable,
  • un-paralleled,
  • un ordinary,
  • un thinkable,
  • avant garde,
  • un paralleled,
  • un wonted,
  • out standing.
  •tough (adjective)
  • un-yielding,
  • no piece of cake,
  • ex-acting,
  • no piece cake,
  • in-tractable,
  • ex acting,
  • un yielding,
  • in tractable.
  •twisted (adjective)
  • un sounder,
  • un-sounder,
  • un-sound,
  • un-soundest,
  • un sound.
  •unaccountable (adjective)
  • unheard of.
  •uncomprehensible (adjective)
  • un-comprehensible,
  • un comprehensible.
  •unconceivable (adjective)
  • un-conceivable,
  • un conceivable.
  •unexplainable (adjective)
  • un-explainable,
  • un explainable.
  •vague (adjective)
  • illdefined,
  • ill defined,
  • un-sure,
  • more blurred,
  • mis-understood,
  • more generalized,
  • un specified,
  • most generalized,
  • mis understood,
  • un-specified,
  • un-determined,
  • most imprecise,
  • unspecified,
  • un sure.

• n.

  •
  • confused,
  • contorted,
  • elaborate.
  •confusing (noun)
  • confusing.
  •easy (noun)
  • simple.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • complex.

• v.

  •confused (verb)
  • twisted.
  •puzzle (verb)
  • bewilder,
  • flabbergast,
  • perplex,
  • think about,
  • muse,
  • ask oneself,
  • confound,
  • amaze,
  • stumble,
  • stump,
  • disturb,
  • get to,
  • frustrate,
  • dumbfound,
  • nonplus,
  • ponder,
  • befog,
  • put off,
  • buffalo,
  • brood,
  • study,
  • rattle,
  • cudgel,
  • think hard,
  • foil,
  • rack one's brains,
  • beat,
  • disconcert,
  • psych out,
  • mull over,
  • stir,
  • throw,
  • discombobulate,
  • profundicate,
  • distract,
  • mystify,
  • addle,
  • complicate,
  • pose,
  • flummox,
  • bemuse,
  • befuddle,
  • marvel.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • arcane,
  • mystical,
  • mystifying,
  • cabalistic.
  •
  • mystic,
  • hidden.
  •
  • occult.
  •awkward
  • embarrassing.
  •inarticulate
  • incoherent.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • disorganized,
  • confusable,
  • Nonplussing,
  • miraculous,
  • exhausting,
  • fishy,
  • baffling,
  • fantastic,
  • Bunking,
  • staggering,
  • unexplored,
  • stupefying,
  • irritating,
  • Sustaining,
  • fabulous,
  • inducing,
  • Muddling,
  • acquiring,
  • Irksome,
  • outlandish,
  • self-contradictory,
  • Distracting,
  • shelling,
  • unexposed,
  • Discomposing,
  • contracting,
  • questioning,
  • insoluble,
  • outwitting,
  • sealed,
  • heavy,
  • Riling,
  • Addling,
  • scabrous,
  • Mothering,
  • posing,
  • unclassified,
  • striking,
  • maze-like,
  • oxymoronic,
  • bemusing,
  • undefined,
  • higgledy-piggledy,
  • Flustering,
  • Knotting,
  • messy,
  • Daedalian,
  • trouncing,
  • absurd,
  • sensitive,
  • unfathomed,
  • Scotching,
  • fantastical,
  • botched,
  • uncanny,
  • phenomenal,
  • queering,
  • fixing,
  • outsmarting,
  • Entangling,
  • supernatural,
  • Unascertained,
  • transcendental,
  • ticking,
  • causing,
  • raging,
  • disorderly,
  • Bamboozling,
  • suspect,
  • cabbalistic,
  • dumbfounding,
  • unfamiliar,
  • wondrous,
  • unimaginable,
  • nebulous,
  • labyrinthine,
  • Producing,
  • Devilling,
  • shady,
  • fetching,
  • dismaying,
  • Bilking,
  • Chiseling,
  • upsetting,
  • Unconceivable,
  • Capturing,
  • suffering,
  • Engendering,
  • impossible,
  • drumming,
  • Chiselling,
  • non-specific,
  • uncharted,
  • undisclosed,
  • arriving,
  • stumping,
  • off-the-wall,
  • unheard,
  • Riddling,
  • Poring,
  • unrevealed,
  • Circumventing,
  • able,
  • incurring,
  • conveying,
  • alchemic,
  • astonishing,
  • ticklish,
  • Commencing,
  • Receiving,
  • Graveling,
  • unsuspected,
  • unsettling,
  • preternatural,
  • unbeknown,
  • Abashing,
  • labyrinthian,
  • scramming,
  • puzzle,
  • Generating,
  • cheating,
  • crossing,
  • unidentified,
  • undiscovered,
  • stimulating,
  • pounding,
  • stupendous,
  • starting,
  • secret,
  • unnerving,
  • Deviling,
  • thwarting,
  • unperceived,
  • unheard-of,
  • flooring,
  • illegible,
  • tricky,
  • flapping,
  • regulating,
  • improbable,
  • Vanquishing,
  • suspicious,
  • Daedal,
  • astounding,
  • blurred,
  • Obtaining,
  • fascinating,
  • chafing,
  • amazing,
  • purchasing,
  • stunning,
  • indecipherable,
  • Discomfiting,
  • conflicting,
  • unknown,
  • unclear,
  • illogical,
  • foiling,
  • unapparent,
  • Mazing,
  • confounding,
  • gnarled,
  • off-putting,
  • uninvestigated,
  • beguiling,
  • perturbing,
  • foggy,
  • developing,
  • unprecedented,
  • Fogging,
  • exceptional,
  • outfoxing,
  • Complicating,
  • fuzzy,
  • inexact,
  • awkward,
  • Aiming,
  • Bothering,
  • frustrating,
  • undiscoverable,
  • bewildering,
  • contradictory,
  • unfathomable,
  • unsolvable,
  • inconsistent,
  • befuddling,
  • wondering,
  • untouched,
  • prodigious,
  • annoying,
  • eccentric,
  • overreaching,
  • unplumbed,
  • thorny,
  • Unapprehended,
  • incalculable,
  • virgin,
  • Fathering,
  • foreign,
  • indistinct,
  • odd,
  • Nettling,
  • flabbergasting,
  • inconceivable,
  • disconcerting,
  • Undivulged,
  • Siring,
  • misty,
  • incongruous,
  • thumping,
  • Experiencing,
  • crushing,
  • muddle-headed,
  • eluding,
  • waffling,
  • arresting,
  • sensational,
  • Thrumming,
  • unexplained.

Paraphrases for Puzzling:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    perplexing, baffling, unnerving.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    curious, disquieting, unsettling, startling, mysterious, inquisitive, stunning, odd, bizarre, remarkable, inconceivable, peculiar, disappointing, uncanny, embarrassing, nosey, unusual, troublesome, Boggled.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    disconcerting, confusing, surprising, intriguing, incomprehensible, astonishing, troubling, inexplicable, disturbing, amazing, astounding, strange, staggering, perplexed, unintelligible, shocking, striking, inaudible, confused, understandable.

Antonyms for Puzzling:

• adj.

  • abstruse
    concrete, plain, clear, obvious, lucid, simple, easy.
  • ambiguous
    explicit, definite.
  • complex
    apparent, discernible, evident, direct.
  • complicated
    facile.
  • convoluted
    straightforward.
  • cryptic
    seen.
  • curious
    average, ordinary, usual, normal.
  • puzzling
    understandable, intelligible.
  • Other antonyms:
    comprehendible.

• v.

  • puzzle
    illustrate, not care, elucidate, clarify, explain, unravel.