What does perplexed mean?
Perplexed means Confused or puzzled..
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/pɚˈplɛkst/ · adjective
Confused or puzzled..
The scientists were perplexed by the new discovery.
She was perplexed. 'Plege'illegience is plege'illegience!'"
Perplexed, Wheeler continues to play for a moment or two, keeping to his own internal time. But after another moment it becomes clear that something is wrong, something which everybody can see but him. He steals a glance up from his instrument, and finds that Luján is staring at him. In fact, every musician in the orchestra is staring at him, all of them wearing the same expression of stony, barely-contained ang— They've been replaced.
"[…] But come, Lady, we are too near the mouth of the cavern; let us seek its inmost recesses. […]" "Though all your actions are noble, […] is it fitting that I should accompany you alone into these perplexed retreats? Should we be found together, what would a censorious world think of my conduct?"
Use perplexed when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Perplexed means Confused or puzzled..
Common synonyms include bewildered, bemused, baffled, befuddled.
Possible antonyms include unperplexed.
The scientists were perplexed by the new discovery.
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