Word Meanings - PERPLEXITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being perplexed or puzzled; complication; intricacy; entanglement; distraction of mind through doubt or difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt. By their own perplexities involved, They ravel more. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PERPLEXITY)

• Doubt
• Dubiousness
• dubitation
• scruple
• hesitation
• suspense
• distrust
• suspicion
• perplexity
• uncertainty
• ambiguity
• difficulty
• indecision
• Intricacy
• Complexity
• complication
• entanglement
• confusion
• Knot
• Tie
• bond
• intricacy
• cluster
• collection
• band
• group
• protuberance
• joint
• Labyrinth
• Maze
• complexity
• bewilderment
• involution
• inexplicable
• #N/A
• Fog
• obscurity
• haze

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PERPLEXITY)

• Decide
• determine
• resolve
• assent

Related words: (words related to PERPLEXITY)

• DUBIOUSNESS
  State of being dubious.
• ASSENTATORY
  Flattering; obsequious. -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv.
• INEXPLICABLE
  Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable mystery. "An inexplicable scratching." Cowper. Their reason is disturbed; their views become vast and perplexed, to others
• LABYRINTHAL
  Pertaining to, or resembling, a labyrinth; intricate; labyrinthian.
• HESITATION
  1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift.
• JOINTWEED
  A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers.
• ASSENTER
  One who assents.
• DISTRUSTLESS
  Free from distrust. Shenstone.
• LABYRINTHINE
  Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal.
• SCRUPLE
  twenty-fourth part of an ounce, a scruple, uneasiness, doubt, dim. of scrupus a rough or sharp stone, anxiety, uneasiness; perh. akin to 1. A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram. 2. Hence, a very small quantity; a particle. I will
• DOUBTFULLY
  In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.
• DUBITATION
  Act of doubting; doubt. Sir T. Scott.
• DECIDER
  One who decides.
• DECIDEMENT
  Means of forming a decision. Beau. & Fl.
• LABYRINTHICI
  An order of teleostean fishes, including the Anabas, or climbing perch, and other allied fishes. Note: They have, connected with the gill chamber, a special cavity in which a labyrinthiform membrane is arranged so as to retain water to supply the
• PROTUBERANCE
  That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation. Solar protuberances , certain rose-colored masses on the limb of the sun which
• 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.
• CLUSTERY
  Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Johnson.
• RESOLVENT
  Having power to resolve; causing solution; solvent.
• LABYRINTHIC; LABYRINTHICAL
  Like or pertaining to a labyrinth.
• UNJOINT
  To disjoint.
• STRAIGHT-JOINT
  Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring
• REDOUBTABLE
  Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero;
• DISJOINT
  Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. Milton.
• UNJOINTED
  Having no joint or articulation; as, an unjointed stem. (more info) 1. Disjointed; unconnected; hence, incoherent. Shak. 2. Etym:
• SUBGROUP
  A subdivision of a group, as of animals. Darwin.