6 days ago · : difficult to understand : causing confusion; A perplexing feature of insomnia is that people seem to overestimate their sleep loss.

confusing, often because you do not know how to solve something: They find the company's attitude perplexing and unreasonable.

1. to make unable to grasp something clearly or to think logically and decisively about something her attitude perplexes me a perplexing problem.

Perplexing definition: puzzling or bewildering; hard to understand, figure out, or solve. See examples of PERPLEXING used in a sentence.

The adjective perplexing describes something it is confusing. Before you're fluent in Arabic, you may find the unfamiliar alphabet to be totally perplexing.

If you find something perplexing, you do not understand it or do not know how to deal with it. It took years to understand many perplexing diseases.

[more perplexing; most perplexing] : difficult to understand : confusing. perplexing questions/problems. His sudden change of attitude is very perplexing.

making you confused or worried because you do not understand something synonym puzzling. a perplexing problem; I found the whole thing extremely perplexing ...

To perplex someone is to amaze, baffle, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, mystify, or puzzle them. Perplexing things are hard to understand.

There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adjective perplexing. See 'Meaning & use' for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.