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adjectiveconfusing or baffling: a puzzling answer. nounthe skill or pastime of constructing or working crossword or other puzzles. Origin of puzzlingFirst recorded in 1590–1600; puzzle + -ing2 OTHER WORDS FROM puzzlingpuz·zling·ly, adverbWords nearby puzzlingpuzzleheaded, puzzle jug, puzzlement, puzzle out, puzzler, puzzling, puzzolana, PVA, PVC, PVD, PVR Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for puzzlingWhether the lack of liberal involvement in the museum is the result of commission or omission, it is puzzling. Communism's Victims Deserve a Museum|James Kirchick|August 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST First, it is puzzling that Facebook ever finds itself in a privacy fight at all. You Can’t Have Facebook’s Best Privacy Policy|Dennis Kneale|May 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST During this time, physicians began to produce case studies of patients whose inability to read was puzzling. Your Kid's Dyslexia Diagnosis Is B.S.|Julian Elliot|April 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST True Detective is foreboding, expansive, puzzling, sometimes infuriating, and lovely to look at. ‘True Detective,’ Obsessive-Compulsive Noir, and ‘Twin Peaks’|Jimmy So|March 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
That last surprising and puzzling image sent everyone out into the lobby asking, “What was that about?” ‘Room 237’ Subject Bill Blakemore Writes About His ‘The Shining’ Theories|William Blakemore|March 29, 2013|DAILY BEAST These buildings are puzzling in a town where life seems so placid. The Soul of John Brown|Stephen Graham She did not waste time, however, in puzzling over the old servant man. The Campfire Girls on the Field of Honor|Margaret Vandercook That was puzzling and didn't fit in with Angela's deductions. The Port of Adventure|Charles 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 Idylls|Charles 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 Century|Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
Words related to puzzlingambiguous, mystifying, perplexing, surprising, inexplicable, baffling, unclear, unfathomable, obscure, incomprehensible, difficult, bewildering, involved, misleading, abstruse, enigmatic, hard, knotty, labyrinthine, unaccountable |