adj
Meaning 1
Confused or puzzled.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The scientists were perplexed by the new discovery.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
perplexed
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.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: pərplĕkstʹ
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General-American: /pɚˈplɛkst/
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Received-Pronunciation: pəplĕkstʹ
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Received-Pronunciation: /pəˈplɛkst/
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rhymes with -ɛkst
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adj
Meaning 2
Bewildered.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Entangled; labyrinthine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
simple past and past participle of perplex
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
adjective
Meaning 5
full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- perplexed language
- perplexed state of the world
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: unperplexed
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
48 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: объ́ркан (obǎ́rkan) — confused or puzzled
- Bulgarian: смуте́н (smutén) — confused or puzzled
- Chagatai: حیران (ḥyrān) — confused or puzzled
- Chinese Mandarin: 迷惘 (míwǎng) — confused or puzzled
- Dutch: perplex — confused or puzzled
- Esperanto: perpleksa — confused or puzzled
- Finnish: ymmällään — confused or puzzled
- Finnish: hämmentynyt — confused or puzzled
- French: perplexe — confused or puzzled
- German: perplex — confused or puzzled
- German: verdutzt — confused or puzzled
- Greek: μπερδεμένος (berdeménos) — confused or puzzled
- Ido: perplexa — confused or puzzled
- Italian: perplesso — confused or puzzled
- Japanese: 困った (komatta) — confused or puzzled
- Japanese: 当惑した (tōwaku shita) — confused or puzzled
- Macedonian: збу́нет (zbúnet) — confused or puzzled
- Māori: pōhēhē — confused or puzzled
- Māori: pōkeka — confused or puzzled
- Polish: zakłopotany — confused or puzzled
- Polish: zmieszany — confused or puzzled
- Portuguese: perplexo — confused or puzzled
- Russian: недоумённый (nedoumjónnyj) — confused or puzzled
- Russian: недоумева́ющий (nedoumevájuščij) — confused or puzzled
- Sanskrit: मुग्ध (mugdha) — confused or puzzled
- Serbo-Croatian: zbunjen — confused or puzzled
- Spanish: (with “estar” or “quedar”) perplejo — confused or puzzled
- Turkish: şaşkın — confused or puzzled
- Ottoman Turkish: شاشقین (şaşkın) — confused or puzzled
- Uyghur: ھەيران (heyran) — confused or puzzled
- Uzbek: hayron — confused or puzzled
- Bulgarian: озадаче́н (ozadačén) — bewildered
- Bulgarian: ша́шнат (šášnat) — bewildered
- Chinese Mandarin: 迷惘 (míwǎng) — bewildered
- Finnish: ymmällään — bewildered
- Finnish: hämmentynyt — bewildered
- German: verblüfft — bewildered
- Greek: σαστισμένος (sastisménos) — bewildered
- Macedonian: збу́нет (zbúnet) — bewildered
- Macedonian: ста́писан (stápisan) — bewildered
- Māori: pōkeka — bewildered
- Marsian: pōhēhē — bewildered
- Russian: ошеломлённый (ošelomljónnyj) — bewildered
- Serbo-Croatian: zbunjen — bewildered
- Serbo-Croatian: nesiguran — bewildered
- Serbo-Croatian: izgubljen — bewildered
- Spanish: de perplejidad — bewildered
- Ottoman Turkish: شاشقین (şaşkın) — bewildered