Thesaurus / puzzling
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
These buildings are puzzling in a town where life seems so placid.
THE SOUL OF JOHN BROWNSTEPHEN GRAHAM
She did not waste time, however, in puzzling over the old servant man.
THE CAMPFIRE GIRLS ON THE FIELD OF HONORMARGARET VANDERCOOK
That was puzzling and didn't fit in with Angela's deductions.
THE PORT OF ADVENTURECHARLES NORRIS WILLIAMSON AND ALICE MURIEL WILLIAMSON
Fifteen years have I been puzzling at the same questions and have only guessed at a few of the answers.
PROSE IDYLLSCHARLES KINGSLEY
It was one of Laplace's highest triumphs to have found an explanation of this puzzling fact.
A POPULAR HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURYAGNES M. (AGNES MARY) CLERKE
This was a puzzling question, because it contained no indication of the answer wanted.
THE MYSTERY OF THE DOWNSJOHN R. WATSON
The most puzzling phase of the situation has been explained.
DEERFOOT IN THE MOUNTAINSEDWARD S. ELLIS
After dinner he went after the puzzling Woodpeckers, and brought three, all different from each other.
AUDUBON AND HIS JOURNALS, VOL. 2MARIA R. AUDUBON
The way also in which the powers of the licenser are administered is, to say the least, puzzling.
DAYS AND NIGHTS IN LONDONJ. EWING RITCHIE
That all this was puzzling and disquieting to Bertram, Billy not once suspected.
MISS BILLY MARRIEDELEANOR H. PORTER
WORDS RELATED TO PUZZLING
- Daedalean
- Gordian
- abstruse
- bewildering
- byzantine
- circuitous
- complicated
- confused
- convoluted
- crabbed
- cryptic
- discursive
- disordered
- disturbing
- enigmatic
- entangled
- excursive
- hidden
- impenetrable
- inscrutable
- interwoven
- intricate
- involved
- jumbled
- knotted
- knotty
- labyrinthine
- mazy
- meandering
- mingled
- mixed
- muddled
- obscure
- paradoxical
- perplexing
- puzzling
- rambling
- recondite
- round-about
- sinuous
- snarled
- sophisticated
- tangled
- tortuous
- undecipherable
- unfathomable
- winding
- abstract
- abstruse
- baffling
- bewildering
- complex
- confounding
- confusing
- dark
- deep
- delicate
- enigmatic
- enigmatical
- entangled
- esoteric
- formidable
- hard to explain
- hard to solve
- hidden
- inexplicable
- intricate
- involved
- knotty
- labyrinthine
- loose
- meandering
- mysterious
- mystical
- mystifying
- nice
- obscure
- obstinate
- paradoxical
- perplexing
- problematical
- profound
- puzzling
- rambling
- subtle
- tangled
- thorny
- ticklish
- troublesome
- unclear
- unfathomable
- unintelligible
- vexing
- ambiguous
- baffling
- cagey
- deceitful
- deceptive
- difficult to catch
- elusory
- equivocal
- evanescent
- fallacious
- fleeting
- fraudulent
- fugacious
- fugitive
- greasy
- illusory
- imponderable
- incomprehensible
- indefinable
- insubstantial
- intangible
- misleading
- occult
- phantom
- puzzling
- shifty
- shy
- slippery
- stonewalling
- subtle
- transient
- transitory
- tricky
- unspecific
- volatile
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