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Definition of Puzzling

1. Adjective. Not clear to the understanding. "Prophetic texts so enigmatic that their meaning has been disputed for centuries"

2. Adjective. Lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity. "A puzzling statement"

Definition of Puzzling

1. Verb. (present participle of ''puzzle'') ¹

2. Adjective. Difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing ¹

3. Noun. Time spent pondering something confusing. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Puzzling

1. puzzle [v] - See also: puzzle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Puzzling

puzzledly puzzledom puzzleheaded puzzleheadedness puzzlehunt puzzlehunts puzzlelike puzzlement puzzlements puzzler

puzzlers puzzles puzzles out puzzlewit puzzlewits puzzling (current term) puzzling out puzzlingly puzzlings puzzlist

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Literary usage of Puzzling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report by Indiana State Board of Health (1914)
"The throat cultures received from the Bloomington epidemic were very puzzling. About sixteen organisms were isolated in pure culture and studied by Mr. ..."

2. America and the Far Eastern Question: An Examination of Modern Phases of the by Thomas Franklin Millard (1909)
"ONE of the complex and puzzling questions which grew out of Japanese and Russian occupation of Manchuria re- \ lates to property rights under the new status ..."

3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"they will expect to happen, that he can make sure of having the pleasure of puzzling them by doing something else.' Here is one of the subtlest pieces of ..."

4. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"puzzling Dr. Shaw, and rendering the latter half of his life miserable, from his utter inability to determine whether it was a bird or a beast. ..."

5. Troy and Its Remains: A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries Made on the by Heinrich Schliemann (1875)
"puzzling transitions from the " Stone Age " to a higher civilization —• The stone age reappears in force, mixed with pottery of fine workmanship, ..."

6. The Works of Hannah More by Hannah More (1835)
"... and too low for heaven ; too refined for sense, and too gross for spirit; they keep a magazine of airy speculations, and shining reveries, and puzzling ..."

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