Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word PERPLEX


PERPLEX

Definitions of PERPLEX

  1. (transitive) To cause to feel baffled; to puzzle.
  2. (transitive) To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To plague; to vex; to torment.
  4. (now, rare) intricate; difficult
  5. (obsolete) A difficulty.

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Number of letters

7

Is palindrome

No

12
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ERP
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PE
PER
PL
RP
RPL

25

3

36

116
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EEL
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ELE
ELP
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EPE
EPL
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Examples of Using PERPLEX in a Sentence

  • For example, he invented the Kruskal count, a magical effect that has been known to perplex professional magicians because it was based not on sleight of hand but on a mathematical phenomenon.
  • Perplex City (wordplay on the term "perplexity") was an alternate reality game (ARG) created by Mind Candy, a London-based developer in 2005.
  • The novel's lack of a coherent plot structure, along with its juvenile humor and abundant scatological details, are all intended to aggravate, perplex and annoy readers.
  • In 2014, Serpell published Seven Modes of Uncertainty, a critical work that examines "the relationship between literature's capacity to unsettle, perplex, and bewilder us, and literature's ethical value".


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