verb
definition
To cause to feel baffled; to puzzle.
definition
To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated.
definition
To plague; to vex; to torment.
adjective
definition
Confused or puzzled.
definition
Bewildered.
Examples of perplexed in a Sentence
She was perplexed by this creature.
He stared at her with a perplexed expression and finally shook his head.
His expression transformed slowly from perplexed to comprehension.
Berg and the countess looked at her, perplexed and frightened.
The officer stood perplexed and his face showed indecision.
The signs, which I had so lately learned, and which I thought I knew, perplexed me.
Effie looked somewhat perplexed, but not satisfied.
The prophet is perplexed about the mysteries of life, and questions God respecting them.
Fred returned just as they were clearing the dishes, wearing a perplexed look on his face.
His voyage was delayed by storms, and he appears to have been perplexed as to the safest route.
For some seconds they gazed with frightened eyes at one another's unfamiliar faces and both were perplexed at what they had done and what they were to do next.
Such a logic, however, is a dialectic of illusion, perplexed by paralogisms and helpless in the face of antinomies.
Eh? repeated Anatole, sincerely perplexed by a thought of the future.
He drew back, gazing down at her with a perplexed expression.
He turned a perplexed gaze on Megan.
The manifold of sense, which plays so important a part in the critical theory of knowledge, is left in an obscure and perplexed position.
Mamun, on receiving his brother's invitation to go to Bagdad, was greatly perplexed; but his tutor and later vizier, Fadl b.
I feel so comfortable! answered Natasha, almost perplexed by her feelings.
The conference of 1792 was so much perplexed that it resorted to the casting of lots.
According to his report, " the mind " always obliges us to suppose Something beyond positive phenomena to which the phenomena must be attributed; but he was perplexed by this " confused negative " idea.
He was interested but perplexed about the March date when Byrne was excused from work—without his wife's knowledge.
Donald's perplexed gaze went from Candice to Alex and then finally sought Carmen.
His dark features were twisted with a perplexed expression as he swung her around.
His biographers used to be perplexed by a letter purporting to be from Liberius, in the works of Hilary, in which he seems to write, in 352, that he had excommunicated Athanasius at the instance of the Oriental bishops; but the document is now held to be spurious.
His chief work was the Moreh Nebuche hazeman (" Guide for the Perplexed of the Age"), a title imitated from that of the 12th-century "Guide for the Perplexed" of Maimonides.
He brought a vast amount of information from the most varied and distant sources to confirm his opinions, and the abundance of his materials never perplexed or burdened him in his argumentation, but examples of well-conducted historical argument are rare in his pages.
This hedonism has perplexed Plato's readers needlessly (as we have said in speaking of the Cyrenaics), inasmuch as hedonism is the most obvious corollary of the Socratic doctrine that the different common notions of good - the beautiful, the pleasant and the useful - were to be somehow interpreted by each other.
He frowned, still perplexed.
Perplexed as to what kind of movers worked at such an hour, she roamed through the row house from top to bottom.
She met his perplexed gaze, her face growing warm.
Jessi looked at him, perplexed as to how Laurencio heard him from the ten feet separating them.
On the death of Sisinnius, patriarch of Constantinople (December 427), Theodosius perplexed by the various claims of the local clergy, appointed the disinguished preacher of Antioch to the vacant see.
The outline of Job's story was no doubt supplied by tradition; and a later poet has developed this outline, and made it a vehicle for expressing his new thoughts respecting a great moral problem which perplexed his contemporaries.
He let her go, perplexed.
Kiera shook her head, perplexed by their odd invitation to stay with them.
She rejoined the party and even danced a few times with Denton, who was perplexed by her sudden change in mood.
How the hostile kings of Israel and Syria came to fight a common enemy, and how to correlate the Assyrian and Biblical records, are questions which have perplexed all recent writers.
The whole kingdom was perplexed, and Abbas had much work to restore confidence and tranquillity.
I am wet, angry, utterly perplexed, I'm speechless.
From Meshed Aga Mahommed sent an envoy to Zaman Shah, asking for the cession of Balkh, and explaining his invasion of Khorasan; but the Afghan monarch was too perplexed with the troubles in his own country and his own insecure position to do more than send an unmeaning reply.
I was sorely perplexed, and felt quite discouraged, and wasted much precious time, especially in Algebra.
I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful.
He leaned back, looking perplexed.
Felipa's brows drew together, her expression perplexed.
His expression was perplexed.
You didn't try as hard to cure me? she asked, perplexed.
She trailed, even more perplexed when the janitor waxing the floor called out a cheerful, "Hey, Toby!"
As she scooted off to do homework, he plunked down at the table, looking perplexed.
It was Carmen's turn to be perplexed.
He pulled up his knees and encircled them with his arms as he stared at her, his expression somewhere between anger and perplexed.