Baffled by Sherlock Holmes' cryptic remarks, Watson wondered whether Holmes was intentionally concealing his thoughts about the crime.
Source: tatoeba (2002)
Baffled
//ˈbæfl̩d//
Synonyms for "baffled" (68 found)
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Related words (34)
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Translations
43 translations across 17 languages.
Dutch
2 entries- met stomheid geslagen adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
- perplex adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
Finnish
2 entries- hämmentynyt adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
- ymmällään adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
French
4 entries- déconcerté adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
- décontenancé adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
- dérouté adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
- perplexe adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
German
4 entries- baff adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
- ratlos adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
- verdutzt adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
- verwirrt adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
Greek
3 entries- άναυδος adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
- μπερδεμένος adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
- σαστισμένος adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
Macedonian
2 entries- збу́нет adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
- ста́писан adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
Māori
1 entries- kānaenae adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
Occitan
4 entries- desconcertat adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
- desmemoriat adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
- embabochit adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
- embaboquit adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- شاشقین adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
Polish
1 entries- zdumiony adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
Portuguese
1 entries- confuso adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
Romanian
1 entries- confuz adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
Russian
2 entries- озада́ченный adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
- сби́тый с то́лку adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- konfuzan adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
- smeten adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
- smušen adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
- zbunjen adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
Spanish
4 entries- desconcertado adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
- patidifuso adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
- perplejo adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
- tirulato adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
Swedish
2 entries- förvirrad adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
- snopen adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
Vietnamese
1 entries- bối rối adj (thoroughly confused, puzzled)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
"Third wish?" The man was baffled. "How can it be a third wish if I haven't had a first and second wish?"
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I'm baffled.
Source: tatoeba (2111755)
Tom is baffled.
Source: tatoeba (2202604)
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