Definition of perplexity

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Perplexity (n.) The quality or state of being perplexed or puzzled; complication; intricacy; entanglement; distraction of mind through doubt or difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt.

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Tweague :: Tweague (n.) A pinching condition; perplexity; trouble; distress.
Bewilder :: Bewilder (v. t.) To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly..
Disembarrass :: Disembarrass (v. t.) To free from embarrassment, or perplexity; to clear; to extricate..
Pucker :: Pucker (n.) A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
Bothersome :: Bothersome (a.) Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.
Discomfit :: Discomfit (v. t.) To break up and frustrate the plans of; to balk/ to throw into perplexity and dejection; to disconcert.
Embarrassment :: Embarrassment (n.) Difficulty or perplexity arising from the want of money to pay debts.
Puzzlement :: Puzzlement (n.) The state of being puzzled; perplexity.
Disembroil :: Disembroil (v. t.) To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion.
Disturbance :: Disturbance (n.) Confusion of the mind; agitation of the feelings; perplexity; uneasiness.
Knot :: Knot (n.) Something not easily solved; an intricacy; a difficulty; a perplexity; a problem.
Scrape :: Scrape (n.) A disagreeable and embarrassing predicament out of which one can not get without undergoing, as it were, a painful rubbing or scraping; a perplexity; a difficulty..
Quandary :: Quandary (v. t.) To bring into a state of uncertainty, perplexity, or difficulty..
Intricacy :: Intricacy (n.) The state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy; the intricacy of a plot..
Bewildering :: Bewildering (a.) Causing bewilderment or great perplexity; as, bewildering difficulties..
Embarrassment :: Embarrassment (n.) A state of being embarrassed; perplexity; impediment to freedom of action; entanglement; hindrance; confusion or discomposure of mind, as from not knowing what to do or to say; disconcertedness..
Coil :: Coil (n.) Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity.
Disentangle :: Disentangle (v. t.) To extricate from complication and perplexity; disengage from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to disembroil; to set free; to separate.
Fumble :: Fumble (v. i.) To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse..
Puzzle :: Puzzle (v.) The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle..
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