| 单词 | puzzling |
| 释义 | puzzling (once / 1485 pages) adj Something that's puzzling is confusing, or hard to understand. It might seem puzzling to you that your best friend claims to hate doughnuts. People sometimes act in puzzling ways, making decisions that you can't comprehend. You might also come across particularly puzzling questions on a test or quiz — these are the hard ones, taking a long time to figure out and requiring a lot of thought. Puzzling comes from the verb puzzle, whose origin is a bit of a puzzle itself. Some experts guess that it comes from pose, formed the way nuzzle is from nose. WORD FAMILYpuzzling: puzzlingly+/puzzle: puzzled, puzzlement, puzzler, puzzles, puzzling/puzzled: puzzledly/puzzlement: puzzlements/puzzler: puzzlers USAGE EXAMPLESWhy Moscow felt it worth the risk of meddling in a presidential election is puzzling. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) Some are just plain puzzling: El Salvador used to promote itself as the 45-Minute Country. New York Times(Dec 26, 2016) Why this problem was not solved long ago is puzzling, Dr. Masters said. New York Times(Dec 19, 2016) 1adj not clear to the understanding Syn enigmatic, enigmatical incomprehensible, uncomprehensible difficult to understand 2adj lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity a puzzling statement Syn confusing, perplexing unclear not clear to the mind |
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