Puzzling
adj, noun, verb
adj, noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Time spent pondering something confusing.
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of puzzle form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
- 1 Difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing.
"Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.[…]But withal there was a perceptible acumen about the man which was puzzling in the extreme."
Adjective
- 1 lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity wordnet
- 2 not clear to the understanding wordnet
Example
More examples"I can see how that would be puzzling."