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mystified

adj · verb · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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1

adj

Meaning 1

puzzled or confused

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

verb

Meaning 2

simple past and past participle of mystify

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, participle, past

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adjective satellite

Meaning 3

totally perplexed and mixed up- Wall Street Journal

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • all this duncical nonsense has my brains metagrobolized

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: metagrobolized, metagrobolised, metagrabolized, metagrabolised

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

3 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • German: verblüfft — puzzled or confused
  • German: irritiert — puzzled or confused
  • Ottoman Turkish: شاشقین (şaşkın) — puzzled or confused