Reverse Dictionary: PERPLEX

ADJECTIVES
► ABROAD confused, bewildered, perplexed, at a loss, in error, wide of the mark or truth → 1770 colloq.
► AGAINST THE WALL bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► ALL ABROAD confused, bewildered, perplexed, at a loss, in error, wide of the mark or truth → 1770 colloq.
► ALL FUSSED ABOUT ► ALL FUSSED UP ABOUT bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► ALL HOT AND BOTHERED bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► ALL IN THE WIND bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BAFFOUNDED perplexed, bewildered → 1886 Eng. dial.
► BAFFOUNDING perplexing, bewildering → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BEAT bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BERAFFLED perplexed, entangled → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE without a satisfactory alternative; in difficulty; bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. colloq. (Bk.)
► BOGFOUNDERED perplexed, bewildered, puzzled → 1896 Eng. dial.
► BUMBAZED perplexed, bewildered; confounded, stupefied → 1720 chiefly Sc.
► BUMFIZZLED adj. confused, perplexed → 1905 Amer. dial.
► BUMFOOZLED bewildered, perplexed, confused, disconcerted, mixed up → 1912 Amer. dial.
► BUMSWIZZLED confused, perplexed → 1916 Amer. dial.
► CABOBBLED confused, puzzled, perplexed, mystified → 1823 Eng. dial. & nautical sl. (Bk.)
► COMFOOZLED bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► CONFLUMMOXED bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► DAFFLING perplexing → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DIFFICULTED perplexed → 1945 US Western sl. (Bk.)
► DISCOMBOBULATED confused; perplexed → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► DISCOMBOOBULATED confused; perplexed → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► DRIVEN IN HEAPS perplexed with a multiplicity of work or engagements → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DUMBFOOZLED bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1825
► DUMP amazed, perplexed → 1622 obs.
► DUM-SQUIZZLED confused, perplexed → 1912 Amer. dial.
► FAST puzzled, perplexed; hard up; at a loss, at a standstill → 1867 Eng. dial.
► FATCHED troubled in mind, perplexed; hurried in business → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FLOORED bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► FLUMMIXED ► FLUMMOXED ► FLUMMUXED bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► FOGGED bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► FOGGY obscure or confused; bewildered; perplexed; muddled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GOING bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GRAVELED bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► HAIRY frightening, perplexing, or complicated → 1971 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
► HARD PUT ► HARD PUT TO IT bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► HOT AND BOTHERED bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► ILL-OFF perplexed, at a loss; in a quandary for want of something → 1818 Sc.
► IN A BOX bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► IN A CORNER bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► IN A FOG bewildered; perplexed; baffled; dazed; confused  → 1942 Amer. colloq. (Bk.)
► IN A HOBBLE in trouble, perplexed → 18C sl. 
► IN A HOLE bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► IN A PUCKER bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► IN A TIGHT BOX adj. bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► IN A YACK in a state of perplexity → 1905 Sc. obs. (Bk.)
► IN SUDS in difficulties, in embarrassment or perplexity → c1572 obs.
► IN THE FOG bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► IN THE SUDS in difficulties, in embarrassment or perplexity → 1603 obs.
► IN THE WOODS bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► INTRINSICATE intricate, involved, entangled, perplexed → 1560 obs.
► JAMMED bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► KNURRY ‘knotty’, perplexing → 1615 obs.
► LICKED bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► MADDLING perplexing → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MARRED perplexed, distracted, bewildered, bemused → c1350 obs.
► MAZED ► MOYSED amazed, astonished, surprised; bewildered, astounded, perplexed → 1703 Eng. dial.
► MISTRYSTED perplexed, confused, frightened → 1849 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MOISENED dazed, perplexed → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ON ONE’S BEAM ENDS bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► ON THE FENCE bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► OUTDONE put out, perplexed, exasperated, displeased; disappointed, overcome, beaten, humiliated, embarrassed → 1816 Amer. dial.
► PERPLEXFUL full of perplexity; perplexing → 1618 obs.
► PERPLEXITIVE tending to perplex → 1660 obs.
► PERPLEXIVE tending to perplex → 1620 obs.
► PUT TO SCIENCE at one’s wits’ end; perplexed → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUEERED bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► QUISQUIS perplexing, doubtful, debateful, dubious → 1720 Sc. obs.
► QUISQUOSE perplexing, doubtful, debateful, dubious → 1720 Sc.
► QUISQUOUS perplexing, subtle; difficult to discuss, deal with, or settle; ticklish → 1721 Sc.
► RAFFLING perplexing, disturbing → 19C Eng. dial.
► SMOCK-RAVELLED perplexed → 1904 Eng. dial.
► STALLED bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► STUCK bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► STUMPED bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SUGARED astonished; perplexed → 1901 sl.
► SUNK bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► TREED bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► TURBID mentally confused, perplexed, muddled; disturbed, troubled → 1647
► TURNED AROUND bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► TWISTED bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► UP AGAINST THE WALL bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► UP A GUMTREE baffled, perplexed → 1996 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► UP A STUMP bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1904 sl. (Bk.)
► UP A TREE bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► UP IN THE AIR bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► WHAPED bewildered, dismayed, perplexed, puzzled → c1374 obs.

​NOUNS
► AMPLISH  ► AMPLUSH a state of perplexity or difficulty → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ANOINTER something perplexing or puzzling → 19C Eng. dial.
► BAMBOOZLEMENT bewilderment; perplexity → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BARBULYE ► BARBULYIE confusion, perplexity, quandary → 1820 Sc. arch.
► BEPUZZLEMENT 1. the act of perplexing → 1806
2. perplexity, bewilderment → 1885
► BOFFLEMENT a bother; a state of perplexity → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BOTHERATION bewilderment; perplexity → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BOTHERMENT something troublesome; perplexity; bewilderment  → 1843 Sc. & Amer. dial.
► BRANGLEMENT confusion; perplexity → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BURBLE trouble, perplexity, disorder → 1812 Sc.
► COMFOOZLEMENT bewilderment; perplexity → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► CRUM-A-GRACKLE a mess, a difficulty, a bother, a perplexity → 19C Eng. dial.
► CUMBERMENT perplexity, confusion → 1430 obs.
► CUMBRANCE trouble of mind; perplexity → c1460 obs.
► DISCABOOBULATION disarray, discomposure, discomfiture; a state of upset, perplexity → 1986 Amer. dial.
► DISCOMBOBOLATION ► DISCOMBOBULATION disarray, discomposure, discomfiture; a state of upset, perplexity → 1839 Amer. dial.
► DULCARNON a dilemma; a state of perplexity → c1374
► DUMBFOOZLEMENT bewilderment; perplexity → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► DUMP a fit of abstraction or musing; a reverie; a dazed or puzzled state; perplexity, amazement, absence of mind → 1523 obs.
► FASHING the act of perplexing or teasing → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FRY bewilderment; perplexity → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GOSS a fuss or perplexity → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HABBLE a difficulty, a state of muddle or perplexity; a quandary; a tangle → 1797 Sc.
► HAMPER confusion, entanglement; perplexity → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HAMPERMENT confusion, entanglement; perplexity → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HOBBLE bewilderment; perplexity → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► MAMMERING a state of doubt, hesitation, or perplexity → 1532 obs.
► MAMMERY a state of doubt, hesitation, or perplexity; vacillation → 1578 obs.
► MAZE a state of amazement, bewilderment, or astonishment; perplexity, confusion, surprise → 1827 Sc. & Eng. & Amer. dial.
► MAZERMENT confusion, perplexity, amazement → 1768 Sc. obs.
► MIZ-MAZE ► MIZZ-MAZE ► MIZZY-MAZE confusion; bewilderment; perplexity; nervous excitement → 1842 Eng. dial.
► NOINTER something perplexing or puzzling → 19C Eng. dial.
► PADDY-NODDY perplexity, embarrassment; a state of agitation, uneasiness, and trouble → 19C Eng. dial.
► PERPLEXION a being perplexed, perplexity → 1485 obs.
► PERPLEXITIVE an occasion of perplexity or anxiety → 1542 obs.
► PUCKER bewilderment; perplexity → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► PUZZLEDOM the realm of puzzles; also, the state of being puzzled; perplexity, bewilderment → 1748
► QUANDORUM ► QUONDORUM a quandary; extreme perplexity → 1894 Eng. dial.
► STAGGERS, THE bewilderment; perplexity → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► STUMP bewilderment; perplexity → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SWITHER perplexity, indecision, hesitation; doubt, uncertainty → 1719 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► TAKING a state of excitement, grief, or perplexity → 1899 Eng. dial.
► TANGLE a difficulty; a state of mental confusion or perplexity → 1873 Sc.
► THRALLAGE bondage; pecuniary difficulty; perplexity → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TITUBATION faltering, suspense, perplexity, embarrassment → 1710

NOUNS – PERSON
► DULCARNON a person in a dilemma; a person perplexed → 1577 obs.
► MYSTIFIC a person who mystifies others; one who causes perplexity or bewilderment → a1849 obs.
► MYSTIFICATION a perplexing person → 1912
► MYSTIFICATOR a person who mystifies others, esp. deliberately; a person causing perplexity or bewilderment → 1823
► PUZZLE-HEAD one who is perplexed or confused over things that are clear and simple to others → 1888
► PUZZLE-PATE a person who is perplexed or confused in his or her mind or ideas → 1761 obs.

PHRASES
► I”M BUGGERED IF I KNOW! indicates one is bemused or perplexed about something → 1929

VERBS
► ANNOY to worry, concern, or disturb a person; also, to perplex, to confuse → 1275 obs.
► BAFFOUND to bewilder, perplex, stun → 1868 Eng. dial.
► BE IN A HANK to be in a state of perplexity or trouble → 19C Eng. dial.
► BELBEVAR to puzzle; to perplex; to be unable to decide → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BEPUZZLE to confuse, to perplex, to bewilder → 1599
► BOFFLE to baffle, to confuse, to perplex, to worry, to annoy → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BUFFALO to overpower, to overawe, or constrain by superior force or influence; to nonplus, to confuse, to perplex, to bewilder → 1904 US sl.
► BUMBAZE to confuse, to perplex, to bewilder, to confound, to stupefy → 1587 chiefly Sc.
► BUMFOOZLE to play tricks upon; to deceive; to humbug; to bewilder, to confuse, to perplex → 1880 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► BUMFUZZLE to confuse, to perplex → 1905 Amer. dial.
► BURBLE to perplex, to confuse, to muddle → 1843 Sc.
► BUSY to afflict, to worry, to disturb, to perplex → a1000 obs.
► CAFFLE to perplex, to entangle a person in conversation → 1781 Eng. dial.
► CAP to puzzle, to perplex → 1781 Eng. dial.
► CONFUBUSCATE to confuse, perplex, astonish → 1880 sl.
► CUMBER to confound or trouble the mind or senses; to perplex, to puzzle → a1375 obs.
► DADDER to perplex, bewilder → 19C Eng. dial.
► DEAVE to deafen, stun, or perplex one with much noise → a1400 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► DECOMBOBLATE to disarrange; to put out of order; to confuse, to perplex, to disconcert → 1965 Amer. dial.
► DIFFICULT to put in a difficulty, to perplex, to puzzle → 1631 Sc.
► DISCOMBOBBLE to disarrange; to put out of order; to confuse, to perplex, to disconcert → 1965 Amer. dial.
► DISCOMBOBERATE to disarrange; to put out of order; to confuse, to perplex, to disconcert → 1840 Amer. dial.
► DISCOMBOBOLATE to disarrange; to put out of order; to confuse, to perplex, to disconcert → 1943 Amer. dial.
► DISCOMBOBRACATE to disarrange; to put out of order; to confuse, to perplex, to disconcert → 1834 Amer. dial.
► DISCOMBOBULATE to disarrange; to put out of order; to confuse, to perplex, to disconcert → 1916 Amer. sl.
► DISCOMBOOBELATE to disarrange; to put out of order; to confuse, to perplex, to disconcert → 1965 Amer. dial.
► DISCOMBOOBERATE to disarrange; to put out of order; to confuse, to perplex, to disconcert → 1943 Amer. dial.
► DISCOMBOOBLE to disarrange; to put out of order; to confuse, to perplex, to disconcert → 1965 Amer. dial.
► DISCOMBOOMERATE to disarrange; to put out of order; to confuse, to perplex, to disconcert → 1965 Amer. dial.
► DISCOMBULATE to disarrange; to put out of order; to confuse, to perplex, to disconcert → 1965 Amer. dial.
► DISCONBOBBERATE to disarrange; to put out of order; to confuse, to perplex, to disconcert → 1965 Amer. dial.
► DISCUMBOBERATE to disarrange; to put out of order; to confuse, to perplex, to disconcert → 1916 Amer. dial.
► DISTROUBLE to trouble greatly; to hinder; to disturb; to perplex → c1369 obs.
► DOZE to stupefy; to muddle; to make drowsy or full; to bewilder, to confuse, to perplex → 1617 obs.
► EMBLUSTRICATE to bewilder, to confuse, to perplex → a1693 obs.
► FASTEN to perplex, to nonplus → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FERHOODLE to confuse, to perplex → 1935 Amer. dial.
► FIKE to trouble, to vex, to perplex, to make uneasy → 1798 Sc.
► FLAMBERGAST to amaze, astonish, bewilder, perplex; to take by surprise → 1869 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► GET THINGS IN A HANK to be in a state of perplexity or trouble → 19C Eng. dial.
► GUMMLE to confuse, to perplex, to perturb → 1823 Sc.
► HABBLE to confuse, to perplex, to nonplus, to embarrass, to impede, to hamper or foil in the performance of anything → 1825 Sc.
► HAISTER ► HESTER to perplex, to tease, to pester, to vex, to harass a person; to annoy → 1818 Sc.
► HARL to be in a state of confusion or perplexity → 1889 Eng. dial.
► MADDLE to perplex; to muddle → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MAMMER to confuse, to perplex → 1825 Eng. dial.
► MAR to confuse, to bewilder; to perplex, to trouble; to grieve, to distress → a1300 obs.
► MASKER to bewilder, to confuse, to perplex → c725 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► MAZZEN to stupefy, to make dizzy; to perplex, to bewilder → 1852 Eng. dial.
► MOIDER  ► MOITHER  ► MOYTHER to confuse, to perplex, to bewilder → 1790 Sc. & Eng, dial.
► MOMMER to confuse, to perplex → 1825 Eng. dial.
► PALL ► PAUL to puzzle, to perplex, to nonplus, to thwart, to baffle → 1832 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► POWFAG to tire; to fatigue the brain; to trouble and perplex the mind → 1864 Eng. dial.
► PUT THE STUNNERS ON to perplex, to confound, to astonish → 1904 sl. (Bk.)
► PUZZLE A PHILADELPHIA LAWYER to be very perplexing → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► RAFFLE to confuse, perplex → 19C Eng. dial.
► RAVEL to confuse, to render incapable of coherent thought, to perplex → 1866 Sc.
► SWITHER to be uncertain; to falter; to be perplexed or undecided; to hesitate → 1535 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► TAFFLE to perplex, to tire, to wear out, to exhaust with fatigue → 1750 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► TAIGLE to confound or get the better of in an argument; to quiz; to bamboozle, to outsmart; to perplex → 1874 Sc.
► TEDDER to perplex, to tease → 1851 Eng. dial.
► TERRIFY to puzzle, to perplex → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TICKLE to puzzle, to perplex → 1865 Sc.
► WEEWAW to vacillate; to perplex, to distract → 1890 Amer. dial.