Word Meanings - PERPLEXITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The quality or state of being perplexed or puzzled; complication; intricacy; entanglement; distraction of mind through doubt or difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt. By their own perplexities involved, They ravel more. Milton.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PERPLEXITY)
- Doubt
- Dubiousness
- dubitation
- scruple
- hesitation
- suspense
- distrust
- suspicion
- perplexity
- uncertainty
- ambiguity
- difficulty
- indecision
- Intricacy
- Complexity
- complication
- entanglement
- confusion
- Knot
- Tie
- bond
- intricacy
- cluster
- collection
- band
- group
- protuberance
- joint
- Labyrinth
- Maze
- complexity
- bewilderment
- involution
- inexplicable
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- Fog
- obscurity
- haze
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PERPLEXITY)
Related words: (words related to PERPLEXITY)
- ASSENTATORY
Flattering; obsequious. -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv. - DUBIOUSNESS
State of being dubious. - INEXPLICABLE
Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable mystery. "An inexplicable scratching." Cowper. Their reason is disturbed; their views become vast and perplexed, to others - LABYRINTHAL
Pertaining to, or resembling, a labyrinth; intricate; labyrinthian. - HESITATION
1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift. - JOINTWEED
A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers. - ASSENTER
One who assents. - DISTRUSTLESS
Free from distrust. Shenstone. - LABYRINTHINE
Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal. - SCRUPLE
twenty-fourth part of an ounce, a scruple, uneasiness, doubt, dim. of scrupus a rough or sharp stone, anxiety, uneasiness; perh. akin to 1. A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram. 2. Hence, a very small quantity; a particle. I will - DOUBTFULLY
In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden. - DUBITATION
Act of doubting; doubt. Sir T. Scott. - DECIDER
One who decides. - DECIDEMENT
Means of forming a decision. Beau. & Fl. - LABYRINTHICI
An order of teleostean fishes, including the Anabas, or climbing perch, and other allied fishes. Note: They have, connected with the gill chamber, a special cavity in which a labyrinthiform membrane is arranged so as to retain water to supply the - PROTUBERANCE
That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation. Solar protuberances , certain rose-colored masses on the limb of the sun which - UNCERTAINTY
1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange. - CLUSTERY
Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Johnson. - RESOLVENT
Having power to resolve; causing solution; solvent. - JOINTURELESS
Having no jointure. - UNJOINT
To disjoint. - STRAIGHT-JOINT
Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring - REDOUBTABLE
Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero; - DISJOINT
Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. Milton. - UNJOINTED
Having no joint or articulation; as, an unjointed stem. (more info) 1. Disjointed; unconnected; hence, incoherent. Shak. 2. Etym: