Crossword-Solution: PERPLEXING 10 letters, 25 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 22

Dictionary

Word Word Type Definition
Perplexing p. pr. & vb. n. of Perplex
Perplexing a. Embarrassing; puzzling; troublesome.

We have 25 clues for the answer “PERPLEXING”

Clue Answers
Discombobulating 2 answers
Very strange 9 answers
Muley 18 answers
priggish 23 answers
Oafish 25 answers
entangling 32 answers
Disconcerting 33 answers
labyrinthine 34 answers
riddly 35 answers
convoluted 36 answers
Laboured 38 answers
Tangled 42 answers
bewildering 42 answers
multifarious 44 answers
Entangled 50 answers
Pain-staking 53 answers
Onerous 56 answers
Moronic 57 answers
Manifold 57 answers
multiple 58 answers
Chaotic 59 answers
Queer 60 answers
prudish 61 answers
Obdurate 66 answers
Odd 81 answers
✏️ Suggest another clue Know another question for crossword solution "PERPLEXING"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
14 +1

New Suggestion for "PERPLEXING"

Answer (solution)
Clue

Related word tools

Sentences with PERPLEXING (5)

Darling found things she could not understand, and of these quite the most perplexing was the word Peter.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
How fully hast thou satisfi’d mee, pure Intelligence of Heav’n, Angel serene, And freed from intricacies, taught to live, The easiest way, nor with perplexing thoughts To interrupt the sweet of Life, from which God hath bid dwell farr off all anxious cares, And not molest us, unless we our selves Seek them with wandring thoughts, and notions vaine.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Oak began now to see light in this direction, and said to himself, “I’ll make her my wife, or upon my soul I shall be good for nothing!” All this while he was perplexing himself about an errand on which he might consistently visit the cottage of Bathsheba’s aunt.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
They were at once more simple and more perplexing; and some way they seemed more important, harder to overlook.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
For Glinda gave her good advice on all occasions; and the Woggle-Bug, who was appointed to the important post of Public Educator, was quite helpful to Ozma when her royal duties grew perplexing.
The Marvellous Land of Oz L. Frank Baum 1993

Quotes with PERPLEXING (3)

One of the most amazing and perplexing features of mainstream Christianity is that seminarians who learn the historical-critical method in their Bible classes appear to forget all about it when it comes time for them to be pastors. They are taught critical approaches to Scripture, they learn about the discrepancies and contradictions, they discover all sorts of historical errors and mistakes, they come to realize that it is difficult to know whether Moses existed or what Jesu…
Bart D. Ehrman Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
If we are seeking to serve the God of truth then we should really welcome truth from whatever source it comes. We shouldn’t fear the truth. Some of it will be from science, obviously, but by no means all of it. It will sometimes by perplexing, how this bit of truth relates to that bit of truth; we know that within science itself often enough and we find it outside of science as well. The crucial thing is to be honest.
John Polkinghorne
I began to meditate upon the writer's life. It is full of tribulation. First he must endure poverty and the world's indifference; then, having achieved a measure of success, he must submit to a good grace of its hazards... But he has one compensation, Whenever he has anything on his mind, whether it be a harassing reflection, grief at the death of a friend, unrequited love, wounded pride, anger at the treachery of someone to whom he has shown kindness, in short any emotion or…
W. Somerset Maugham Cakes and Ale
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Newsday, WSJ.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (1998–2014).