It took years to understand many perplexing diseases...
British Parliamentary procedure is perplexing at the best of times.
English dictionary. 2008.
Perplexing — Per*plex ing, a. Embarrassing; puzzling; troublesome. Perplexing thoughts. Milton. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
perplexing — index complex, debatable, difficult, disputable, dubious, enigmatic, equivocal, indefinable, labyrinthine … Law dictionary
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 — 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
