other words for perplexity
- puzzlement
- abstruseness
- charade
- chiller
- cliffhanger
- conundrum
- crux
- cryptogram
- difficulty
- enigma
- grabber
- inscrutability
- mystification
- occult
- oracle
- poser
- problem
- puzzle
- puzzler
- question
- rebus
- riddle
- rune
- secrecy
- sphinx
- stickler
- stumper
- subtlety
- teaser
- thriller
- twister
- whodunit
- why
- brainteaser
- braintwister
- closed book
- inscrutableness
- mindboggler
- sixty-four-thousand-dollar question
- tough nut to crack
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The Company is in complete shock and perplexity to the news.
"I comprehend you," said she, with an air of some perplexity.
He paused a moment scratching his head in perplexity, and then blurted forth without reserve.
In her perplexity she went over the whole thing time and again.
She could no longer control the manifestations of her impatience and her perplexity.
She looked into her lover's face and saw in it a look of commiseration and perplexity.
Forbid that these shall in any degree be diminished by any difficulty or perplexity that may arise.
Her eyes already were upon me, exhibiting her fright and perplexity, her knowledge that I had viewed something of horror.
Deane stood looking out for a few minutes, and then turned towards his visitor with an air of perplexity.
She did not yet stir, but there came into her face a slight inflection of confusion or perplexity.
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WORDS RELATED TO PERPLEXITY
- ado
- aggravation
- annoyance
- anxiety
- bellyache
- botheration
- bustle
- care
- concern
- difficulty
- distress
- drag
- exasperation
- flurry
- fuss
- headache
- irritant
- irritation
- molestation
- nudge
- nuisance
- pain
- pain in the neck
- perplexity
- pest
- plague
- pother
- pressure
- problem
- strain
- to-do
- trial
- trouble
- vexation
- worriment
- worry