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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