Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word PERPLEX
PERPLEX
Definitions of PERPLEX
- (transitive) To cause to feel baffled; to puzzle.
- (transitive) To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated.
- (transitive, obsolete) To plague; to vex; to torment.
- (now, rare) intricate; difficult
- (obsolete) A difficulty.
Number of letters
7
Is palindrome
No
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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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