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Adjective puzzling has 2 senses
- enigmatic, enigmatical, puzzling - not clear to the understanding; "I didn't grasp the meaning of that enigmatic comment until much later"; "prophetic texts so enigmatic that their meaning has been disputed for centuries"
Antonyms: comprehensible, comprehendible (indirect, via incomprehensible)
- confusing, perplexing, puzzling - lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity; "sent confusing signals to Iraq"; "perplexing to someone who knew nothing about it"; "a puzzling statement"
Antonym: clear (indirect, via unclear)
Verb puzzle has 2 senses
- perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound - be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"
--1 is one way to confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate
Sample sentences:
The bad news will puzzle him
The good news will puzzle her
The performance is likely to puzzle Sue
- puzzle - be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide; "We puzzled over her sudden departure"
--2 is one way to chew over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculate
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue puzzle over the results of the experiment
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