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adjective
- 1. causing one to be puzzled; perplexing: "only one very puzzling question remains unanswered"
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difficult to explain or understand: It's a rather puzzling film. a puzzling situation. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Difficult to understand. abstrusely. ambiguity. ambiguously. esoterically. fathomlessly. garble. it's all Greek to me idiom. labyrinthine. lost. non-intuitive. obscurely. unreadable. verbiage. verbosely. verbosity.
: difficult to understand or solve. puzzling symptoms. puzzlingly adverb. Examples of puzzling in a Sentence. The directions are somewhat puzzling. Recent Examples on the Web Much about Pikaia’s anatomy remains a mystery, but looking at it from a new angle could offer fresh insights into its puzzling array of features, Mussini said.
Something that's puzzling is confusing, or hard to understand. It might seem puzzling to you that your best friend claims to hate doughnuts. People sometimes act in puzzling ways, making decisions that you can't comprehend.
Puzzling definition: confusing or baffling. See examples of PUZZLING used in a sentence.
PUZZLING definition: confusing or baffling | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples
n. 1. Something, such as a game, toy, or problem, that requires ingenuity and often persistence in solving or assembling. 2. Something that baffles or confuses; an enigma: the puzzle of the author's true identity. 3. The condition of being perplexed; bewilderment: I'm really in a puzzle over how this happened. v. puz·zled, puz·zling, puz·zles.
Definition of puzzling adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing.
Synonyms for PUZZLING: inexplicable, mysterious, incomprehensible, unclear, vague, hieroglyphic, indecipherable, hieroglyphical; Antonyms of PUZZLING: obvious, evident, distinct, certain, plain, bright, sure, strong
PUZZLING meaning: causing or likely to cause confusion difficult to solve or understand.
