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- Dictionaryperplex/pəˈplɛks/
verb
- 1. make (someone) feel completely baffled: "she was perplexed by her husband's moodiness"
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PERPLEX definition: 1. to confuse and worry someone slightly by being difficult to understand or solve: 2. to confuse…. Learn more.
The meaning of PERPLEX is to make unable to grasp something clearly or to think logically and decisively about something. How to use perplex in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Perplex.
Perplex definition: to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain; confuse mentally. See examples of PERPLEX used in a sentence.
To perplex someone is to amaze, baffle, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, mystify, or puzzle them. Perplexing things are hard to understand. If you're perplexed, then you're confused.
PERPLEX meaning: 1. to confuse and worry someone slightly by being difficult to understand or solve: 2. to confuse…. Learn more.
perplex. (pəʳpleks ) Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense perplexes , present participle perplexing , past tense, past participle perplexed. verb. If something perplexes you, it confuses and worries you because you do not understand it or because it causes you difficulty.
1. to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain. 2. to make complicated; confuse. 3. to hamper with complications, confusion, or uncertainty. [1585–95; back formation from perplexed] per•plex′er, n.
