PERPLEX meaning: Confuse or puzzle someone deeply

We found 27 dictionaries that define the word Perplex:

General (24 matching dictionaries)

perplex: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
perplex: Merriam-Webster
perplex: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
perplex: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
perplex: Collins English Dictionary
perplex: Vocabulary.com
Perplex, perplex: Wordnik
perplex: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
perplex: Wiktionary
perplex: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
perplex: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
perplex: Infoplease Dictionary
Perplex, perplex: Dictionary.com
perplex: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Perplex: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
perplex: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
perplex: Rhymezone
perplex: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
perplex: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
perplex: FreeDictionary.org
perplex: Mnemonic Dictionary
perplex: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)

perplex: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

perplex: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

perplex: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (perplex)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause to feel baffled; to puzzle.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To plague; to vex; to torment.
▸ adjective:  (now rare) intricate; difficult
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A difficulty.

Similar:

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

Opposite:

clear, explain, elucidate

Types:

befuddle, bewilder, confuse, discombobulate, muddle, more...

Phrases:

perplex number, stump or perplex, more...

Adjectives:

most, great, first, unpaid, simple, primitivist, ancient, psychological

Colors:

indigo, mauve, chartreuse, teal, cerulean, more...