perplexed

comparative more perplexed · superlative most perplexed

1. Confused or puzzled.

   The scientists were perplexed by the new discovery.

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   She was perplexed. 'Plege'illegience is plege'illegience!'"

   1963, James Clavell, The Children's Story, unnumbered page

   Perplexed, Wheeler continues to play for a moment or two, keeping to his own internal time. But after another moment it becomes clear that something is wrong, something which everybody can see but him. He steals a glance up from his instrument, and finds that Luján is staring at him. In fact, every musician in the orchestra is staring at him, all of them wearing the same expression of stony, barely-contained ang— They've been replaced.

   2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 137

2. Bewildered.
3. obsoleteEntangled; labyrinthine.

   "[…] But come, Lady, we are too near the mouth of the cavern; let us seek its inmost recesses. […]" "Though all your actions are noble, […] is it fitting that I should accompany you alone into these perplexed retreats? Should we be found together, what would a censorious world think of my conduct?"

   1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of perplex