Usually means: Confused, puzzled by something complex.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word perplexed:

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  1. perplexed: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. perplexed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. perplexed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. perplexed: Collins English Dictionary
  5. perplexed: Vocabulary.com
  6. Perplexed, perplexed: Wordnik
  7. perplexed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. perplexed: Wiktionary
  9. perplexed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. perplexed: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. perplexed: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Perplexed, perplexed: Dictionary.com
  13. perplexed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Perplexed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. perplexed: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. perplexed: Rhymezone
  17. Perplexed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. perplexed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. perplexed: Free Dictionary
  20. perplexed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. perplexed: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. perplexed: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. perplexed: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Confused or puzzled.
▸ adjective:  Bewildered.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Entangled; labyrinthine.

Similar:
puzzled, mystified, confounded, baffled, befuddled, nonplussed, bewildered, confused, mazed, mixed-up, more...

Opposite:
clear, un perplexed, not perplexed

Types:
confused, bewildered, puzzled, befuddled, bamboozled, befogged, more...

Phrases:
self perplexed, The Guide for the Perplexed, A Guide for the Perplexed, to be totally perplexed and mixed up, be perplexed, more...

Adjectives:
little, sore, more, wrought, cornwallis, washington, openmouthed, saval, ignorant, jealous, shy

Colors:
    indigo,     mauve,     slate gray,     olive,     teal, more...



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Similar:
puzzled, mystified, confounded, baffled, befuddled, nonplussed, bewildered, confused, mazed, mixed-up, more...

Opposite:
clear, un perplexed, not perplexed

Types:
confused, bewildered, puzzled, befuddled, bamboozled, befogged, more...

Phrases:
self perplexed, The Guide for the Perplexed, A Guide for the Perplexed, to be totally perplexed and mixed up, be perplexed, judging perplexed, more...

Adjectives:
little, sore, more, wrought, cornwallis, washington, openmouthed, saval, ignorant, jealous, shy

Colors:
    indigo,     mauve,     slate gray,     olive,     teal, more...



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