Nonplussing
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Nonplussing is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of nonplus.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of nonplus.
More Meanings
- (uncommon) Confusing, bewildering, baffling or perplexing.
Example Sentences
Nothing can be so nonplussing to a seeker as to have to grope about in a fog for the thing sought.
These brooms have in common a very nonplussing trait: they may die in winter, for no discernible reason.
We have to with a Heart ſearching God, who will find out every unworthy Communicant to his utter Shame and Confuſion ; when God examins ſuch, his Queſtions will be Nonpluſſing and Confounding,[…]
We look like a council of two, a single pair of Sanhedrin warriors or elder Seraphim, we look like a solitary nation of no history, a duprass, Kurt Vonnegut called it. And what’s more nonplussing than anything else, we look happy.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include puzzled, perplexed, nonnegative, nonnormative, noncontent, nonpersonal.
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