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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Stand :: Stand (v. i.) A state of perplexity or embarrassment; as, to be at a stand what to do..
Recourse :: Recourse (n.) Recurrence in difficulty, perplexity, need, or the like; access or application for aid; resort..
Tweague :: Tweague (n.) A pinching condition; perplexity; trouble; distress.
Difficulty :: Difficulty (n.) Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires skill and perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology..
Bother :: Bother (n.) One who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; as, to be in a bother..
Strait :: Strait (a.) Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits..
Inwrap :: Inwrap (v. t.) To involve, as in difficulty or perplexity; to perplex..
Clear :: Clear (v. t.) To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous.
Distraction :: Distraction (n.) State in which the attention is called in different ways; confusion; perplexity.
Fumble :: Fumble (v. i.) To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse..
Discomfit :: Discomfit (v. t.) To break up and frustrate the plans of; to balk/ to throw into perplexity and dejection; to disconcert.
Snare :: Snare (v. t.) To catch with a snare; to insnare; to entangle; hence, to bring into unexpected evil, perplexity, or danger..
Disembroil :: Disembroil (v. t.) To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion.
Entanglement :: Entanglement (n.) State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.
Quandary :: Quandary (n.) A state of difficulty or perplexity; doubt; uncertainty.
Puzzlement :: Puzzlement (n.) The state of being puzzled; perplexity.
Maze :: Maze (n.) Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of bewilderment.
Disentangle :: Disentangle (v. t.) To extricate from complication and perplexity; disengage from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to disembroil; to set free; to separate.
Stumblingly :: Stumbling-block (n.) Any cause of stumbling, perplexity, or error..
Distractive :: Distractive (a.) Causing perplexity; distracting.
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