Usually means: Confusing, difficult to understand clearly.
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  1. perplexing: Merriam-Webster
  2. perplexing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. perplexing: Collins English Dictionary
  4. perplexing: Vocabulary.com
  5. Perplexing, perplexing: Wordnik
  6. perplexing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. perplexing: Wiktionary
  8. Perplexing, perplexing: Dictionary.com
  9. perplexing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Perplexing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. perplexing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. perplexing: Rhymezone
  13. Perplexing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. perplexing: FreeDictionary.org
  15. perplexing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. perplexing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. perplexing: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  That causes perplexity.

Similar:
puzzling, confusing, unclear, mystifying, bothersome, bewildering, baffling, mind-boggling, confuddled, bedaffled, more...

Opposite:
clear, simple, understandable, obvious

Types:
mind-boggling, mind-blowing, mind-numbing, mind-bending, mind-expanding, mind-altering, more...

Phrases:
perplexing choice, more perplexing, introspective perplexing, perplexing situation, more...

Adjectives:
most, first, least, best, her, those, painful, crueller, plausible, greater, central

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Similar:
puzzling, confusing, unclear, mystifying, bothersome, bewildering, baffling, mind-boggling, confuddled, bedaffled, more...

Opposite:
clear, simple, understandable, obvious

Types:
mind-boggling, mind-blowing, mind-numbing, mind-bending, mind-expanding, mind-altering, more...

Phrases:
perplexing choice, more perplexing, introspective perplexing, perplexing situation, more...

Adjectives:
most, first, least, best, her, those, painful, crueller, plausible, greater, central

Colors:
    mauve,     chartreuse,     teal,     amethyst,     indigo, more...



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