Synonyms for puzzler
noun mystery- abstruseness
- charade
- chiller
- cliffhanger
- conundrum
- crux
- cryptogram
- difficulty
- enigma
- grabber
- inscrutability
- mystification
- occult
- oracle
- perplexity
- poser
- problem
- puzzle
- puzzlement
- 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
Antonyms for puzzler
catches
perplexity
- abstruseness
- brainteaser
- braintwister
- charade
- chiller
- cliffhanger
- closed book
- conundrum
- crux
- cryptogram
- difficulty
- enigma
- grabber
- inscrutability
- inscrutableness
- mindboggler
- mystification
- occult
- oracle
- poser
- problem
- puzzle
- puzzlement
- puzzler
- question
- rebus
- riddle
- rune
- secrecy
- sixty-four-thousand-dollar question
- sphinx
- stickler
- stumper
- subtlety
- teaser
- thriller
- tough nut to crack
- twister
- whodunit
- why
problem
Word Origin & History
1650s, agent noun from puzzle (v.).
Example Sentences forpuzzler
“Well, it is a puzzler,” said Adams, with a quiet smile and a perplexed look.
“It will be a puzzler, without Smoker can run it down,” said Humphrey.
This was a puzzler to Kelly, who only knew his own side of the question.
This is a puzzler, but there is an apparent way of surmounting the difficulty.
This question is often a puzzler for both Compositor and Reader.
"Well, if this isn't a puzzler, I don't know what is," observed Grif.
That question, which raised a general laugh at my expense, was a puzzler.
How she come to be related to that hard-as-nails Joe Stagg is a puzzler.
All this was plain enough, but the last sentence was the puzzler.
I can easily descend with the cavalry, but how to get the wagons down is a puzzler.