All puzzling synonyms
puzΒ·zling
P p adj puzzling
- greek β of or relating to Greece, the Greeks, or their language.
- incoherent β without logical or meaningful connection; disjointed; rambling: an incoherent sentence.
- incomprehensible β impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- at issue β The question or point at issue is the question or point that is being argued about or discussed.
- implausible β not plausible; not having the appearance of truth or credibility: an implausible alibi.
- incohesive β Not cohesive.
- knotty β having knots; full of knots: a knotty piece of wood.
- mazy β full of confusing turns, passages, etc.; like a maze; labyrinthine.
- demagogic β If you say that someone such as a politician is demagogic, you are criticizing them because you think they try to win people's support by appealing to their emotions rather than using reasonable arguments.
- mystifying β to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
- hi tech β a style of interior design using features of industrial equipment
- multivocal β having many or different meanings of equal probability or validity: a multivocal word.
- intriguing β to arouse the curiosity or interest of by unusual, new, or otherwise fascinating or compelling qualities; appeal strongly to; captivate: The plan intrigues me, but I wonder if it will work.
- fly ball β a ball that is batted up into the air.
- hi-tech β Of, or using high technology.
- daedalean β an Athenian architect who built the labyrinth for Minos and made wings for himself and his son Icarus to escape from Crete.
- complex β Something that is complex has many different parts, and is therefore often difficult to understand.
- avantgarde β the advance group in any field, especially in the visual, literary, or musical arts, whose works are characterized chiefly by unorthodox and experimental methods.
- complicated β If you say that something is complicated, you mean it has so many parts or aspects that it is difficult to understand or deal with.
- fathomless β impossible to measure the depth of; bottomless.
- convoluted β If you describe a sentence, idea, or system as convoluted, you mean that it is complicated and difficult to understand.
- clear as mud β not at all clear
- inexplainable β not explainable; incapable of being explained; inexplicable.
- imprecise β not precise; not exact; vague or ill-defined.
- for the birds β any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
- inexplicable β not explicable; incapable of being accounted for or explained.
- difficult β not easily or readily done; requiring much labor, skill, or planning to be performed successfully; hard: a difficult job.
- abstruse β You can describe something as abstruse if you find it difficult to understand, especially when you think it could be explained more simply.
- mind-bending β mind-blowing.
- delphian β a native or inhabitant of Delphi.
- inexplicit β not explicit or clear; not clearly stated.
- alchemistic β a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
- misleading β deceptive; tending to mislead.
- in question β a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- funny β funnies. comic strips. Also called funny paper. the section of a newspaper reserved for comic strips, word games, etc.
- gasser β Herbert Spencer, 1888β1963, U.S. physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1944.
adverb puzzling
- mysteriously β full of, characterized by, or involving mystery: a mysterious occurrence.
- confusingly β causing or tending to cause confusion: a confusing attempt at explanation.
- abstrusely β In an abstruse manner. (First attested in the early 17th century.)0.
- bafflingly β to confuse, bewilder, or perplex: He was baffled by the technical language of the instructions.
adjective puzzling
- amphibological β (rare) of doubtful meaning, ambiguous, quibbling.
- confusing β Something that is confusing makes it difficult for people to know exactly what is happening or what to do.
- discommodious β Not commodious; uncomfortable.
- nodulous β having nodules.
- disorienting β to cause to lose one's way: The strange streets disoriented him.
- baffling β impossible to understand; perplexing; bewildering; puzzling
- casuistical β Casuistic.
- enigmatic β Difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious.
- enigmatical β Pertaining to an enigma.