| 单词 | baffled |
| 释义 | baffled (once / 845 pages) adjn When you're baffled, you're confused or perplexed. Being baffled is being befuddled, bewildered, confounded, or mixed up. If you're baffled, you can't understand something. Some people are baffled by math; others are baffled by things celebrities do. Some are baffled at why anyone would care what celebrities do. Sometimes when you're baffled, you genuinely can't figure something out, and other times, you just disapprove. For example, a teacher could say, "I'm baffled that you missed the test!" As long as the world is full of odd things, we'll all spend part of our lives baffled. WORD FAMILYbaffled: unbaffled+/baffle: baffled, bafflement, baffles, baffling/bafflement: bafflements/baffling: bafflingly USAGE EXAMPLESAt first I was baffled, along with many others. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) Financial experts are baffled about how to evaluate the move. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) When my husband explained that many Britons wanted to leave Europe, our older daughter was baffled. New York Times(Dec 24, 2016) 1adj perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment Syn at sea, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up perplexed full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment 2n people who are frustrated and perplexed the children's faces clearly expressed the frustration of the baffled Hyper people (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively |
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