PUZZLE meaning: Problem requiring thought to solve

We found 42 dictionaries that define the word puzzle:

General (32 matching dictionaries)

puzzle: Merriam-Webster.com
puzzle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
puzzle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
puzzle: Collins English Dictionary
puzzle: Vocabulary.com
Puzzle, puzzle: Wordnik
puzzle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
puzzle: Wiktionary
puzzle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
puzzle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
puzzle: Infoplease Dictionary
Puzzle, puzzle: Dictionary.com
puzzle (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
puzzle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Puzzle (Biffy Clyro album), Puzzle (CNBLUE song), Puzzle (Dada album), Puzzle (Gianna Nannini album), Puzzle (Kanjani Eight album), Puzzle (Narnia), Puzzle (artist), Puzzle (disambiguation), Puzzle, The Puzzle (band): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Puzzle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
puzzle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
puzzle: Rhymezone
Puzzle (nt), puzzle, puzzle, puzzle (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
puzzle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
puzzle: Free Dictionary
puzzle: Mnemonic Dictionary
puzzle: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
puzzle: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)

PUZZLE: Band Terms

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

Puzzle: Management Dictionary
puzzle: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

Puzzle: Game Dictionary
puzzle: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
puzzle: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)

Puzzle: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

puzzle, puzzle, puzzle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of.
▸ noun:  A game for one or more people that is more or less difficult to work out or complete.
▸ noun:  A crossword puzzle.
▸ noun:  A jigsaw puzzle.
▸ noun:  A riddle.
▸ noun:  (archaic) Something made with marvellous skill; something of ingenious construction.
▸ noun:  The state of being puzzled; perplexity.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To perplex, confuse, or mystify; to cause (someone) to be faced with a mystery, without answers or an explanation.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To think long and carefully, in bewilderment.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To make intricate; to entangle.

Similar:

amaze, nonplus, stupify, baffle, flummox, stupefy, dumbfound, perplex, bewilder, mystify, more...

Opposite:

solution, answer, clarity, simplicity, certainty

Types:

jigsaw, crossword, sudoku, anagram, trivia, logic, riddle, more...

Phrases:

jigsaw puzzle, crossword puzzle, puzzle out, puzzle over, Chinese puzzle, more...

Adjectives:

great, chinese, old, complex, real, interesting, giant, whole, intellectual, second, biggest

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