Need another word that means the same as “puzzling”? Find 4 synonyms and 30 related words for “puzzling” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Puzzling” are: enigmatic, enigmatical, confusing, perplexing
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “puzzling” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| confusing | Causing confusion or disorientation. Being hospitalized can be confusing and distressing for a small child. |
| enigmatic | Difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious. An enigmatic smile. |
| enigmatical | Not clear to the understanding. |
| perplexing | Completely baffling; very puzzling. A perplexing problem. |
| ambiguous | Open to more than one interpretation; not having one obvious meaning. An ambiguous situation with no frame of reference. |
| arcane | Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge. Arcane procedures for electing people. |
| confuse | Make (someone) bewildered or perplexed. A lot of people confuse a stroke with a heart attack. |
| confusing | Causing confusion or disorientation. Being hospitalized can be confusing and distressing for a small child. |
| crossword | A puzzle consisting of a grid of squares and blanks into which words crossing vertically and horizontally are written according to clues. She settled down to do the crossword. |
| cryptic | Having a secret or hidden meaning- John Gunther. He found his boss s utterances too cryptic. |
| discombobulated | Having self-possession upset; thrown into confusion- G.B.Shaw. The hecklers pelted the discombobulated speaker with anything that came to hand. |
| disconcerted | Having self-possession upset; thrown into confusion. Looked at each other dumbly quite disconcerted. |
| enigmatic | Not clear to the understanding. Prophetic texts so enigmatic that their meaning has been disputed for centuries. |
| incomprehensible | Difficult to understand. A language which is incomprehensible to anyone outside the office. |
| inexplicable | Incapable of being explained or accounted for. For some inexplicable reason her mind went completely blank. |
| inscrutable | Of an obscure nature. Guy looked blankly inscrutable. |
| insoluble | Without hope of solution. An insoluble problem. |
| mysterious | (of a location) having an atmosphere of strangeness or secrecy. A mysterious benefactor provided the money. |
| occult | (of a disease or process) not accompanied by readily discernible signs or symptoms. A wooden screen designed to occult the competitors. |
| odd | An indefinite quantity more than that specified. She looked younger than her fifty odd years. |
| opaque | A substance for producing opaque areas on negatives. Opaque to X rays. |
| oracular | Holding or claiming the authority of an oracle. An ambiguous oracular remark. |
| perplexing | Completely baffling; very puzzling. A perplexing problem. |
| puzzle | A jigsaw puzzle. He loved to solve chessmate puzzles. |
| questioning | The raising of a doubt about or objection to something. The questioning mind of a child. |
| recondite | (of a subject or knowledge) little known; abstruse. Some recondite problem in historiography. |
| sibylline | Resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy. Thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements. |
| strange | Denoting or involving a flavour (variety) of unstable quark having an electric charge of -1/3. Strange quarks have similar properties to down quarks and bottom quarks, but are distinguished from them by having an intermediate mass. It is strange how things change. |
| subtlety | The quality or state of being subtle. The textural subtlety of Degas. |
| unaccountable | Unable to be explained. He was not only the most charismatic man she d ever met but also the most complex and unaccountable. |
| unclear | Not clear to the mind. The motive for this killing is unclear. |
| unfathomable | Incapable of being fully understood. Mountains of unfathomable scale. |
| unintelligible | Impossible to understand. Dolphin sounds are unintelligible to humans. |
| weird | Suggesting the operation of supernatural influences. Some trick of the moonlight some weird effect of shadow. |
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