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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Byzantine, addled, at a loss, at a nonplus, at a stand, at a standstill, at an impasse, baffled, balled up, balled-up, bamboozled, beat, bewildered, beyond one, bothered, buffaloed, chaotic, complex, complicated, confounded, confused, convoluted, crabbed, cramp, daedal, dazed, devious, difficult, discomposed, disconcerted, disordered, disorganized, disturbed, elaborate, embarrassed, embrangled, entangled, floored, flustered, fluttered, fouled up, fuddled, fussed, garbled, hard, hard to understand, implicated, in a dilemma, in a jumble, in a pother, in a pucker, in a stew, in a sweat, in a swivet, in a tizzy, in suspense, intricate, involuted, involved, jumbled, knotted, knotty, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, licked, loused up, many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, messed up, mixed up, mixed-up, mucked up, muddled, multifarious, mystified, nonplussed, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, on tenterhooks, overtechnical, perturbed, put-out, puzzled, ramified, rattled, roundabout, ruffled, scrambled, screwed up, shaken, shook, shuffled, snarled, stuck, stumped, subtle, tangled, tangly, thrown, tough, twisted, unsettled, upset
Dictionary Results for perplexed:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
perplexed
    adj 1: full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment;
           "perplexed language"; "perplexed state of the world"
           [ant: unperplexed]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Perplex \Per*plex"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Perplexed; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Perplexing.] [L. perplexari. See Perplex, a.]
   1. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated,
      and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to
      perplex one with doubts.
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            No artful wildness to perplex the scene. --Pope.
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            What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard
            for our weak parts, will lie open to the
            understanding in a fair view.         --Locke.
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   2. To embarrass; to puzzle; to distract; to bewilder; to
      confuse; to trouble with ambiguity, suspense, or anxiety.
      "Perplexd beyond self-explication." --Shak.
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            We are perplexed, but not in despair. --2 Cor. iv.
                                                  8.
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            We can distinguish no general truths, or at least
            shall be apt to perplex the mind.     --Locke.
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   3. To plague; to vex; to torment. --Glanvill.
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   Syn: To entangle; involve; complicate; embarrass; puzzle;
        bewilder; confuse; distract. See Embarrass.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Perplexed \Per*plexed"\, a.
   Entangled, involved, or confused; hence, embarrassd; puzzled;
   doubtful; anxious. -- Per*plex"ed*ly, adv. --
   Per*plex"ed*ness, n.
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