Definition of Perplexed

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Definition of Perplexed
	Perplexed of Perplex Entangled, involved, or confused; hence, embarrassd; puzzled; doubtful; anxious. Related Definitions: Anxious, Confused, Doubtful, Entangled, Hence, Involved, Of, Or, Perplex, Puzzled

Perplexed Quotations

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
Robert Louis Stevenson

There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.
Lascelles Abercrombie

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
Ali ibn Abi Talib

I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.
Lionel Blue

I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else.
Kim Gordon

I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery.
Brian Ferneyhough

A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.
Moshe Sharett

The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.
Albert Barnes

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.
Dennis Prager

Perplexed Translations

perplexed in Afrikaans is verward, verbysterd, deurmekaar
perplexed in Dutch is beteuterd, beduusd, bedremmeld
perplexed in German is perplex
perplexed in Hungarian is megzavarodott, zavart
perplexed in Italian is sbalordito, perplesso
perplexed in Spanish is desconcertado, perplejo

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