Word Meanings - PERPLEXING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Embarrassing; puzzling; troublesome. "Perplexing thoughts." Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PERPLEXING)

• Ambiguous
• Equivocal
• vague
• doubtful
• enigmatical
• uncertain
• obscure
• unintelligible
• perplexing
• indistinct
• dubious
• Difficult
• Hard
• intricate
• Involved
• trying
• arduous
• troublesome
• up hill
• unmanageable
• unamenable
• reserved
• opposed
• Enigmatical
• Puzzling
• mystic

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PERPLEXING)

• Reveal
• make known
• discover

Related words: (words related to PERPLEXING)

• PUZZLEMENT
  The state of being puzzled; perplexity. Miss Mitford.
• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
• PUZZLE
  1. Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making. 2. The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle.
• TRYGON
  Any one of several species of large sting rays belonging to Trygon and allied genera.
• DUBIOUSNESS
  State of being dubious.
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• OPPOSABILITY
  The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• PUZZLEDOM
  The domain of puzzles; puzzles, collectively. C. Kingsley.
• TRYSAIL
  A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer. Totten.
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• INDISTINCTION
  Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being
• DOUBTFULLY
  In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.
• OPPOSITIVE
  Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• PERPLEX
  1. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts. No artful wildness to perplex the scene. Pope. What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• VAGUELY
  In a vague manner. What he vaguely hinted at, but dared not speak. Hawthorne.
• IATROCHEMISTRY
  Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body,
• MAISTRE; MAISTRIE; MAISTRY
  Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. Chaucer.
• CENTRY
  See GRAY
• ANCESTRY
  1. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Addison. 2. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who
• STRATARITHMETRY
  The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
• GANTRY
  See GAUNTREE
• GENTRY
  gentrise, and OF. gentelise, genterise, E. gentilesse, also OE. 1. Birth; condition; rank by birth. "Pride of gentrie." Chaucer. She conquers him by high almighty Jove, By knighthood, gentry, and sweet friendship's oath. Shak. 2. People
• CHLOROMETRY
  The process of testing the bleaching power of any combination of chlorine.
• SERPENTRY
  1. A winding like a serpent's. 2. A place inhabited or infested by serpents.
• BAYEUX TAPESTRY
  A piece of linen about 1 ft. 8 in. wide by 213 ft. long, covered with embroidery representing the incidents of William the Conqueror's expedition to England, preserved in the town museum of Bayeux in Normandy. It is probably of the 11th century,
• UNPERPLEX
  To free from perplexity. Donne.
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• DYNAMOMETRY
  The art or process of measuring forces doing work.
• ENIGMATIC; ENIGMATICAL
  Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer.
• VOLUMENOMETRY
  The method or process of measuring volumes by means of the volumenometer.