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Definition of Baffled
1. Adjective. Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment. "She felt lost on the first day of school"
Similar to: Perplexed
Derivative terms: Confusedness
2. Noun. People who are frustrated and perplexed. "The children's faces clearly expressed the frustration of the baffled"
Definition of Baffled
1. Adjective. thoroughly confused, puzzled ¹
2. Adjective. having baffles ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Baffled
1. baffle [v] - See also: baffle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Baffled
Literary usage of Baffled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1884)
"about it ; they allow it to be believed that they are baffled, ... When they know
themselves to be baffled, there is no danger in quieting the public mind, ..."
2. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"... no doubt, some extraordinary mischance, one of those occurrences that baffled
all one's anticipations. In that case she would have written to him. ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1836)
"... insult over some, and yet others domineer over him, here command, there crouch ;
tyrannize in one place, be baffled in another ; a wise man at home, ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"... on the eastern side yet stands part of that venerable fabric which baffled
the attempts of General Sarsfield, of whose unsuccessful cannonading in 1690, ..."
5. The Puritans: Or, The Church, Court, and Parliament of England, During the by Samuel Hopkins (1861)
"His ARGUMENT FOR THE VALIDITY OF HIS PRESBYTERIAN ORDINATION.— His FRIENDS IN
THE COUNCIL baffled. — THE OBJECTION TO HIS ORDINATION A PRETENCE. ..."
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