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Word Meanings - PERPLEXING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • PUZZLEDOM
    The domain of puzzles; puzzles, collectively. C. Kingsley.
  • 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.
  • DISCOVERTURE
    A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
  • OPPOSITIVE
    Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
  • 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.
  • TRYPSINOGEN
    The antecedent of trypsin, a substance which is contained in the cells of the pancreas and gives rise to the trypsin.
  • MAISTRE; MAISTRIE; MAISTRY
    Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. Chaucer.
  • 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,
  • 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
  • GANTRY
    See GAUNTREE
  • 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.
  • CHLOROMETRY
    The process of testing the bleaching power of any combination of chlorine.
  • 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
  • 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,
  • COUNTRY-DANCE
    See MACUALAY
  • UNPERPLEX
    To free from perplexity. Donne.
  • 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.

 

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