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- Dictionarybaffling/ˈbaflɪŋ/
adjective
- 1. impossible to understand; perplexing: "the crime is a baffling mystery for the police"
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impossible for someone to understand or explain: I found what he was saying completely baffling. The baffling array of features on baby monitors can be overwhelming. See. baffle. Fewer examples. The financial markets can be baffling. The book features a detective who can penetrate the most baffling mysteries.
The meaning of BAFFLING is extremely confusing or difficult to understand. How to use baffling in a sentence.
Baffling means impossible to understand or figure out. It’s used to describe someone or something that baffles —confuses, bewilders, perplexes, or confounds. The word usually describes someone or something that results in enough confusion to cause someone to come to standstill.
to cause someone to be unable to understand or explain something: Even his friends were baffled by his behavior. baffling. adjective us / ˈbæf·lɪŋ /
If something is baffling, it's completely confusing or mysterious. You might find your friend's hatred for the taste of chocolate utterly baffling. A good mystery novel begins with a baffling crime — one that seems at first nearly impossible to solve.
To confuse or perplex, especially so as to frustrate or prevent from taking action: a patient whose condition baffled the physicians. 2. To impede the force or movement of (a fluid). n. 1. A usually static device that regulates the flow of a fluid or light. 2. A partition that prevents interference between sound waves in a loudspeaker.
(ˈbæflɪŋ ) adjective. impossible to understand; perplexing; bewildering; puzzling. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Derived forms. bafflingly (ˈbafflingly) adverb. Examples of 'baffling' in a sentence. baffling.
baffling (to somebody) causing you to feel completely confused and unable to understand. Some of the country’s customs are baffling to outsiders. Want to learn more?
Synonyms for BAFFLING: perplexing, puzzling, confusing, confounding, frustrating, muddled, bewildering, disorganized; Antonyms of BAFFLING: coherent, systematic, connected, reasonable, logical, solid, valid, orderly.
Baffle means to confuse, bewilder, perplex, or confound. The word usually implies that such confusion causes someone to come to standstill—that it stumps them or makes them completely bewildered. You might be baffled by a difficult riddle or confusing instructions. People’s strange behavior might baffle you.
