perplexed

Confused or puzzled.

Adjective

  1. Confused or puzzled.
    • The scientists were perplexed by the new discovery.
    • She was perplexed. 'Plege'illegience is plege'illegience!'" - 1963, James Clavell, The Children's Story, unnumbered page:
    • 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...
  2. Bewildered.
  3. Entangled; labyrinthine.
    • "[…] 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?...

Forms

more perplexed most perplexed

Derived

perplexedly perplexedness unperplexed

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of perplex