Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
Perplexing — Per*plex ing, a. Embarrassing; puzzling; troublesome. Perplexing thoughts. Milton. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
perplexing — [adj] difficult to understand baffling, beyond one, complicated, confusing, convoluted, disconcerting, impenetrable, intricate, involved, knotty, mind bending, mysterious, mystifying, paradoxical, puzzling, taxing, thorny, worrying; concept 529 … New thesaurus
perplexing — adj. perplexing to + inf. (it was perplexing to read so many contradictory accounts of the incident) * * * [pə pleksɪŋ] perplexing to + inf. (it was perplexing to read so many contradictory accounts of the incident) … Combinatory dictionary
perplexing — [[t]pə(r)ple̱ksɪŋ[/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n If you find something perplexing, you do not understand it or do not know how to deal with it. It took years to understand many perplexing diseases... British Parliamentary procedure is perplexing at… … English dictionary
Perplexing — Perplex Per*plex , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Perplexed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Perplexing}.] [L. perplexari. See {Perplex}, a.] 1. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
perplexing — adj. Perplexing is used with these nouns: ↑puzzle … Collocations dictionary
perplexing — per|plex|ing [ pər pleksıŋ ] adjective confusing: a perplexing problem … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
perplexing — adjective he was famous for solving the most perplexing cases Syn: puzzling, baffling, mystifying, mysterious, bewildering, confusing, disconcerting, worrying, unaccountable, difficult to understand, beyond one, paradoxical, peculiar, funny,… … Thesaurus of popular words
perplexing — UK [pə(r)ˈpleksɪŋ] / US [pərˈpleksɪŋ] adjective confusing a perplexing problem … English dictionary
perplexing — adjective lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity (Freq. 2) sent confusing signals to Iraq perplexing to someone who knew nothing about it a puzzling statement • Syn: ↑confusing, ↑puzzling … Useful english dictionary
