puzzled

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʌ.zl̩d/

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Adjective

puzzled (comparative more puzzled, superlative most puzzled)

1. Confused or perplexed.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 11, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     (...) when the day of the departure came, between her two customs of laughing and crying, Miss Sedley was greatly puzzled how to act.

   • 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:

     Once or twice he scratched his head, and stared out of the window with a puzzled frown. And each time, after a brief survey of the other side of Half Moon Street, he turned back again to the breakfast table with a grin.

Derived terms

• puzzledly
• puzzledness

Translations

confused or perplexed

• Catalan: perplex
• Dutch: verward (nl), verbijsterd (nl)
• Finnish: ymmällään (fi), hämmentynyt (fi)
• French: perplexe (fr)
• German: verblüfft (de), verdutzt (de), perplex (de)
• Hebrew: מְבוּלְבָּל m (mevulbal)
• Hungarian: zavart (hu), tanácstalan (hu)
• Italian: perplesso (it)
• Macedonian: збу́нет (zbúnet)
• Maori: raumahara, pōrahu, pōrahurahu
• Portuguese: perplexo (pt)
• Russian: озада́ченный (ru) (ozadáčennyj)
• Spanish: confundido (es), perplejo (es), desconcertado (es)
• Swedish: förbryllad (sv), villrådig (sv)

Verb

puzzled

1. simple past and past participle of puzzle