From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Perplex \Per*plex"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Perplexed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Perplexing}.] [L. perplexari. See {Perplex}, adjective]
1. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts.
No artful wildness to perplex the scene. --Pope.
What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view. --Locke.
2. To embarrass; to puzzle; to distract; to bewilder; to confuse; to trouble with ambiguity, suspense, or anxiety. ''Perplexd beyond self-explication.'' --Shak.
We are perplexed, but not in despair. --2 Cor. iv. 8.
We can distinguish no general truths, or at least shall be apt to perplex the mind. --Locke.
3. To plague; to vex; to tormen. --Glanvill.
Syn: To entangle; involve; complicate; embarrass; puzzle; bewilder; confuse; distract. See {Embarrass}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Perplexed \Per*plexed"\, adjective Entangled, involved, or confused; hence, embarrassd; puzzled; doubtful; anxious. -- {Per*plex"ed*ly}, adverb -- {Per*plex"ed*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: full or difficulty or confusion or bewilderment; "perplexed language"; "perplexed state of the world" [ant: {unperplexed}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
106 Moby Thesaurus words for "perplexed": Byzantine, addled, at a loss, at a nonplus, at a stand, at a standstill, at an impasse, baffled, balled up, balled-up, bamboozled, beat, bewildered, beyond one, bothered, buffaloed, chaotic, complex, complicated, confounded, confused, convoluted, crabbed, cramp, daedal, dazed, devious, difficult, discomposed, disconcerted, disordered, disorganized, disturbed, elaborate, embarrassed, embrangled, entangled, floored, flustered, fluttered, fouled up, fuddled, fussed, garbled, hard, hard to understand, implicated, in a dilemma, in a jumble, in a pother, in a pucker, in a stew, in a sweat, in a swivet, in a tizzy, in suspense, intricate, involuted, involved, jumbled, knotted, knotty, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, licked, loused up, many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, messed up, mixed up, mixed-up, mucked up, muddled, multifarious, mystified, nonplussed, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, on tenterhooks, overtechnical, perturbed, put-out, puzzled, ramified, rattled, roundabout, ruffled, scrambled, screwed up, shaken, shook, shuffled, snarled, stuck, stumped, subtle, tangled, tangly, thrown, tough, twisted, unsettled, upset
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