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Puzzling   /pˈəzəlɪŋ/  /pˈəzlɪŋ/   Listen
Puzzling

adjective
1.
Not clear to the understanding.  Synonyms: enigmatic, enigmatical.  "Prophetic texts so enigmatic that their meaning has been disputed for centuries"
2.
Lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity.  Synonyms: confusing, perplexing.  "Perplexing to someone who knew nothing about it" , "A puzzling statement"


Puzzle

verb
(past & past part. puzzled; pres. part. puzzling)
1.
Be a mystery or bewildering to.  Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, stick, stupefy, vex.  "Got me--I don't know the answer!" , "A vexing problem" , "This question really stuck me"
2.
Be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide.



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"Puzzling" Quotes from Famous Books



... Queen Dido, which were scattered to the four winds of Heaven, I fear; nor could I discover a reasonably good bust of Homer; but respectable substitutes are provided, and some of them have the great merit of puzzling all beholders to tell to whom they belong, which I believe was the great characteristic of ...
— Home as Found • James Fenimore Cooper
... words two or three times, "there goes two white horses;" but he could not find out what was wrong, and after puzzling for a long while, he was obliged to give it up, and his papa said,—"Suppose you had been talking about those horses before you saw them go by, should you have said, 'there they goes?'" "No," ...
— More Seeds of Knowledge; Or, Another Peep at Charles. • Julia Corner
... pleasant to think of one's puzzling the organised wisdom of so superior a planet as this Utopia, this moral monster State my Frankenstein of reasoning has made, and to that pitch we have come. When we are next in the presence of our Lucerne official, he has the bearing of a man who faces a mystification beyond his ...
— A Modern Utopia • H. G. Wells
... much which you found there, relating to the right conduct of life, you had already found scattered through the books of the Greek and Roman moralists. You would be startled by no strange or appalling truth. You would turn over their leaves in vain in search of such dark and puzzling ingenuities as try the wits of those who resort to the pages of the Timaeus. A child can understand the essential truths of Christ. And the value of Christianity consists not in this, that it puts forth a new, ingenious, and intricate system of philosophy, ...
— Zenobia - or, The Fall of Palmyra • William Ware
... a puzzling question to decide just where to draw the line in separating foreign from what we may call current American folk-lore. The traditions and superstitions that a mother as a child or girl heard in a foreign land, ...
— Current Superstitions - Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk • Various


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