Perplexing

/pɚˈplɛksɪŋ/

Synonyms for "perplexing" (99 found)

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confusedescriptive termevaluative descriptorinterpretive descriptor

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Collocations

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perplexing dataperplexing findingperplexing issueperplexing paradoxperplexing phenomenonperplexing problemperplexing questionperplexing result

Inflections

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more perplexingmost perplexingperplexedperplexes

Derivations

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Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The well documented violent nature of humanity is rather perplexing at first until one realizes that humans are merely slightly more intelligent animals.

Source: tatoeba (6691512)

Sami asked Layla a perplexing question.

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Tom asked me a perplexing question.

Source: tatoeba (8568818)

Tom asked several perplexing questions.

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