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Perplex vs. Puzzle — What's the Difference?

Perplex vs. Puzzle — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Perplex and Puzzle

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Perplex

To confuse or trouble with uncertainty or doubt.

Puzzle

A puzzle is a game, problem, or toy that tests a person's ingenuity or knowledge. In a puzzle, the solver is expected to put pieces together in a logical way, in order to arrive at the correct or fun solution of the puzzle.

Perplex

To make confusedly intricate; complicate
Poorly informed opinions that only perplex the subject.

Puzzle

Something, such as a game, toy, or problem, that requires ingenuity and often persistence in solving or assembling.

Perplex

(transitive) To cause to feel baffled; to puzzle.
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Puzzle

Something that baffles or confuses; an enigma
The puzzle of the author's true identity.

Perplex

(transitive) To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated.

Puzzle

The condition of being perplexed; bewilderment
I'm really in a puzzle over how this happened.

Perplex

To plague; to vex; to torment.

Puzzle

To baffle or confuse mentally by presenting or being a difficult problem or matter.

Perplex

(obsolete) intricate; difficult

Puzzle

To clarify or solve (something confusing) by reasoning or study
He puzzled out the significance of the statement.

Perplex

(obsolete) A difficulty.

Puzzle

To be perplexed.

Perplex

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.
What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view.

Puzzle

To ponder over a problem in an effort to solve or understand it.

Perplex

To embarrass; to puzzle; to distract; to bewilder; to confuse; to trouble with ambiguity, suspense, or anxiety.
We are perplexed, but not in despair.
We can distinguish no general truths, or at least shall be apt to perplex the mind.

Puzzle

Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of.
Where he went after he left the house is a puzzle.

Perplex

To plague; to vex; to tormen.

Puzzle

A game for one or more people that is more or less difficult to work out or complete.

Perplex

Intricate; difficult.

Puzzle

A crossword puzzle.

Perplex

Be a mystery or bewildering to;
This beats me!
Got me--I don't know the answer!
A vexing problem
This question really stuck me

Puzzle

A jigsaw puzzle.

Perplex

Make more complicated;
There was a new development that complicated the matter

Puzzle

A riddle.

Puzzle

(archaic) Something made with marvellous skill; something of ingenious construction.

Puzzle

The state of being puzzled; perplexity.
To be in a puzzle

Puzzle

(transitive) To perplex, confuse, or mystify; to cause (someone) to be faced with a mystery, without answers or an explanation.

Puzzle

(intransitive) To think long and carefully, in bewilderment.
We puzzled over the curious-shaped lock, but were unable to discover how the key should be inserted.

Puzzle

(transitive) To make intricate; to entangle.

Puzzle

Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making.

Puzzle

The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle.

Puzzle

To perplex; to confuse; to embarrass; to put to a stand; to nonplus.
A very shrewd disputant in those points is dexterous in puzzling others.
He is perpetually puzzled and perplexed amidst his own blunders.

Puzzle

To make intricate; to entangle.
They disentangle from the puzzled skein.
The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate,Puzzled in mazes, and perplexed with error.

Puzzle

To solve by ingenuity, as a puzzle; - followed by out; as, to puzzle out a mystery.

Puzzle

To be bewildered, or perplexed.
A puzzling fool, that heeds nothing.

Puzzle

To work, as at a puzzle; as, to puzzle over a problem.

Puzzle

A particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution;
He loved to solve chessmate puzzles
That's a real puzzler

Puzzle

A toy that tests your ingenuity

Puzzle

Be a mystery or bewildering to;
This beats me!
Got me--I don't know the answer!
A vexing problem
This question really stuck me

Puzzle

Be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide;
We puzzled over her sudden departure

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