perplexedadj.n.

Brit.

/pəˈplɛkst/, U.S.

/pərˈplɛkst/

Forms: late Middle English– perplexed, 1500s perplixed, 1500s–1700s (1800s archaic) perplext, 1600s perplex't, 1600s–1800s perplexd; also Scottish pre-1700 perplexit.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: perplex v., -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: < perplex v. + -ed suffix¹. Compare earlier perplex adj.

A. adj.

1. Of a person: troubled by deep uncertainty, esp. because of a complicated or unexplained matter; confused, baffled, bewildered, confounded. Of a state, act, etc.: characterized by, or expressive of, such uncertainty. Formerly also: †troubled; distressed, afflicted, tormented (cf. perplex v. 1b) (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [adjective] > perplexed

disjointa1500

perplexeda1500

embarrassed1683

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > depth, obscurity > [adjective]

higheOE

dighela1000

deepc1000

darkOE

starkOE

dusk?c1225

subtle1340

dimc1350

subtilea1393

covert1393

mystica1398

murka1400

cloudyc1400

hard?c1400

mistyc1400

unclearc1400

diffuse1430

abstractc1450

diffused?1456

exquisitec1460

obnubilous?a1475

obscure?a1475

covered1484

intricate?a1500

nice?a1500

perplexeda1500

difficilea1513

difficult1530

privy1532

smoky1533

secret1535

abstruse?1549

difficul1552

entangled1561

confounded1572

darksome1574

obnubilate1575

enigmatical1576

confuse1577

mysteriousa1586

Delphic1598

obfuscatea1600

enfumed1601

Delphicala1603

obstruse1604

abstracted1605

confused1611

questionable1611

inevident1614

recondite1619

cryptic1620

obfuscated1620

transcendent1624

Delphian1625

oraculous1625

enigmatic1628

recluse1629

abdite1635

undilucidated1635

clouded1641

benighted1647

oblite1650

researched1653

obnubilated1658

obscurative1664

tenebrose1677

hyperbyssal1691

condite1695

diffusive1709

profound1710

tenebricose1730

oracular1749

opaque1761

unenlightening1768

darkling1795

offuscating1798

unrecognizable1817

tough1820

abstrusive1848

obscurant1878

out-of-focus1891

unplumbable1895

inenubilable1903

non-transparent1939

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > [adjective]

yblenta1225

amazed?c1225

wory?c1225

mingedc1275

willc1300

distracta1340

confounded1362

confuse1362

distraitc1374

whapedc1374

wilsomea1375

poseletc1390

distraught1393

perplexa1425

wildc1440

wiltc1440

dodemusydc1450

mistedc1450

unclearc1475

mazed1493

perplexeda1500

traversablea1500

mazyc1525

entangled1561

muddy?1571

distraughted1572

moidered1587

wondering1592

puzzled1598

plundered1601

distracted1604

uncollected1613

wildered1642

turbid1647

tosticated1650

fuddled1656

pixie-led1659

puzzling1692

bumbazed1720

maffled1820

obfuscated1822

confused1825

muddly1829

mystified1833

maze1842

obfusticatedc1844

head-scratching1849

clueless1862

flustery1862

befogged1868

deurmekaar1871

mosy1887

skewgee1890

buggered-up1893

confusticated1898

smock-ravelled1904

messed-up1913

screwed-up1943

hung up1945

lost1967

gravelled-

a1500 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 15th Cent. (1939) 16 (MED) Yf þu can not wepe for my perplexed heuynesse, Yet wepe for my dere sone, which one my lap lieth ded.

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man viii. f. 103 Glandules..pouryng forth teares in a perplexed mynde.

1611 Bible (King James) Joel i. 18 The herds of cattle are perplexed, because they haue no pasture.

a1631 J. Donne in Select. (1840) 223 A divided, a distracted, a perplexed, an irresolved heart.

1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 78 Perplex'd and troubl'd at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply.

1712 S. Centlivre (title) The perplex'd lovers.

1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator 150 To find she was likely to continue refractory to what afforded so great a Prospect of Happiness to her, rendered him extremely uneasy and perplexed.

1836 E. B. Browning Poet's Vow i. xiii Mad winds that howling go!..perplexed seas That stagger from their blow!

1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood x. 73 A very perplexed expression took hold of Mr. Jasper's face.

1927 Dict. National Biogr. 1912–21 at Butlin, Sir Henry Trentham He was never too busy to help a perplexed student.

1996 Independent 6 Jan. (Suppl.) 11/1 The diarist-narrator is quizzed by his perplexed mother.

2. Of a situation, condition, etc.: complicated, confused, involved. Of language, an account, etc.: causing confusion, difficulty, or doubt because of its complexity; unnecessarily complicated or elaborate.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [adjective] > difficult or complex

nice?a1500

perplexeda1522

perplex1534

intricablea1540

implicate1555

labyrinthed1641

complexed1646

knotted1649

complicated1656

plicated1666

complicatea1687

complex1715

Byzantine1937

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) ix. vii. 50 Tharwith this ilk wilsum perplexit way Bakwart he held.

1576 A. Fleming tr. J. L. Vives in Panoplie Epist. 399 Ambrosius is..in some places..perplext and cumbersome to bee vnderstoode.

1657 J. Trapp Comm. Job xxxvi. 22 A Teacher of perplexed things, an unriddler of Riddles.

a1668 W. Davenant Man's the Master (1669) iii. i This is the most perplext encounter that I ever saw.

1723 H. Rowlands Mona Antiqua Restaurata xi. 170 It is no wonder it came to pass that many passages in Roman and British histories have appear'd so perplex'd and intricate.

1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers ii. x. 287 His style is disagreeable, being full of perplexed sentences.

1832 G. C. Lewis Remarks Use & Abuse Polit. Terms xi. 93 On this point his language is somewhat perplexed.

1885 Dict. National Biogr. VI. 122/1 Besides clearing away a jungle of perplexed notions, he [sc. Robert Boyle] collected a number of highly suggestive facts and observations.

1956 ‘M. Innes’ Appleby plays Chicken ii. vii. 200 This has been a perplexed business. I think I've seen my way through it.

2001 Beaver (Nexis) Nov. 54 A century and a half of Canada's perplexed, complicated relationship with nation and empire.

3. Of a material object: having complex structure; having the parts intricately intertwined; tangled. Also figurative. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > [adjective]

snarledc1440

entangled1561

intrinsicate1562

interlaqueate1575

kangled1577

intricate1579

ravelled1594

tangled1600

perplexed1605

intrincea1616

intertangleda1625

intangle1642

snarly1647

intertwisteda1659

tangly1813

reticular1818

uncardeda1833

tanglesome1888

warpled1897

pretzelled1938

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Gg3^v The formes of Substances..(as they are nowe by compounding and transplanting multiplied) are so perplexed .

1637 J. Milton Comus 2 Their way Lies through the perplex't paths of this dreare wood.

1690 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) V. 14 I much admired the contorsions of the Thea roote, which was so perplext, large & intricate.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. x. 413 The history and inventions of past ages, recorded by these perplexed [Chinese] symbols, must frequently prove unintelligible.

1777 E. Burke Let. to Sheriffs Bristol (1920) 19 The way still before you is intricate, dark, and full of perplexed and treacherous mazes.

1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xlviii. 556 They were wholly unable to discover any outlet from this maze of difficulty, which did not lie through some perplexed and entangled thicket.

1913 B. Mallet Brit. Budgets 171 The object of maintaining the existing proportion between direct and indirect taxation, still the only treasury finger-post to the perplexed paths of incidence.

1994 Sugar Nov. 88/2 To round off the look, the new-found chums had equally perplexed hairdos.

B. n.

With plural agreement. With the. Perplexed people as a class.In later use in allusion to Guide for the Perplexed (also Guide of the Perplexed), the English name of a work of Jewish theology (Arabic dalālat al-ḥā'irīn, Hebrew mōreh ha-nĕḇūḵīm) by Moses ben Maimon (Maimonides).

ΚΠ

1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 22 They had more neede of others consolation, then themselues, being sorowfull, to presume to comfort the perplexed.

a1647 T. Hooker Applic. of Redempt.: 9th & 10th Bks. (1657) x. 582 It's a special print and impression of the work of Gods Faithfulness, that he commonly carries the hearts of the perplexed, and their own spirits carry them to such who have been most exercised under such trials.

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede II. iv. xxix. 264 For sleep comes to the perplexed—if the perplexed are only weary enough.

1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men I. iii. 320 [He] found himself surrounded by the perplexed and half-hearted.

a1922 A. C. T. Meynell Poems (1923) 135 We the unready, the perplexed, the cold, Must shape the Eternal in our thoughts anew.

1988 M. Charney Hamlet's Fictions Introd. 6 If Hamlet is an intellectual at all, he is a negative intellectual who is not an appropriate guide for the perplexed.

2003 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 23 Mar. xiv. 3 Then, about four years ago, the numbers dwindled, and in 2000 the birds abandoned the area completely. Mayor Suzanne M. Walters of Stone Harbor is among the perplexed.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	perplexed
释义	perplexedadj.n. Brit. /pəˈplɛkst/, U.S. /pərˈplɛkst/ Forms: late Middle English– perplexed, 1500s perplixed, 1500s–1700s (1800s archaic) perplext, 1600s perplex't, 1600s–1800s perplexd; also Scottish pre-1700 perplexit. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: perplex v., -ed suffix¹. Etymology: < perplex v. + -ed suffix¹. Compare earlier perplex adj. A. adj. 1. Of a person: troubled by deep uncertainty, esp. because of a complicated or unexplained matter; confused, baffled, bewildered, confounded. Of a state, act, etc.: characterized by, or expressive of, such uncertainty. Formerly also: †troubled; distressed, afflicted, tormented (cf. perplex v. 1b) (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [adjective] > perplexed disjointa1500 perplexeda1500 embarrassed1683 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > depth, obscurity > [adjective] higheOE dighela1000 deepc1000 darkOE starkOE dusk?c1225 subtle1340 dimc1350 subtilea1393 covert1393 mystica1398 murka1400 cloudyc1400 hard?c1400 mistyc1400 unclearc1400 diffuse1430 abstractc1450 diffused?1456 exquisitec1460 obnubilous?a1475 obscure?a1475 covered1484 intricate?a1500 nice?a1500 perplexeda1500 difficilea1513 difficult1530 privy1532 smoky1533 secret1535 abstruse?1549 difficul1552 entangled1561 confounded1572 darksome1574 obnubilate1575 enigmatical1576 confuse1577 mysteriousa1586 Delphic1598 obfuscatea1600 enfumed1601 Delphicala1603 obstruse1604 abstracted1605 confused1611 questionable1611 inevident1614 recondite1619 cryptic1620 obfuscated1620 transcendent1624 Delphian1625 oraculous1625 enigmatic1628 recluse1629 abdite1635 undilucidated1635 clouded1641 benighted1647 oblite1650 researched1653 obnubilated1658 obscurative1664 tenebrose1677 hyperbyssal1691 condite1695 diffusive1709 profound1710 tenebricose1730 oracular1749 opaque1761 unenlightening1768 darkling1795 offuscating1798 unrecognizable1817 tough1820 abstrusive1848 obscurant1878 out-of-focus1891 unplumbable1895 inenubilable1903 non-transparent1939 the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > [adjective] yblenta1225 amazed?c1225 wory?c1225 mingedc1275 willc1300 distracta1340 confounded1362 confuse1362 distraitc1374 whapedc1374 wilsomea1375 poseletc1390 distraught1393 perplexa1425 wildc1440 wiltc1440 dodemusydc1450 mistedc1450 unclearc1475 mazed1493 perplexeda1500 traversablea1500 mazyc1525 entangled1561 muddy?1571 distraughted1572 moidered1587 wondering1592 puzzled1598 plundered1601 distracted1604 uncollected1613 wildered1642 turbid1647 tosticated1650 fuddled1656 pixie-led1659 puzzling1692 bumbazed1720 maffled1820 obfuscated1822 confused1825 muddly1829 mystified1833 maze1842 obfusticatedc1844 head-scratching1849 clueless1862 flustery1862 befogged1868 deurmekaar1871 mosy1887 skewgee1890 buggered-up1893 confusticated1898 smock-ravelled1904 messed-up1913 screwed-up1943 hung up1945 lost1967 gravelled- a1500 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 15th Cent. (1939) 16 (MED) Yf þu can not wepe for my perplexed heuynesse, Yet wepe for my dere sone, which one my lap lieth ded. 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man viii. f. 103 Glandules..pouryng forth teares in a perplexed mynde. 1611 Bible (King James) Joel i. 18 The herds of cattle are perplexed, because they haue no pasture. View more context for this quotation a1631 J. Donne in Select. (1840) 223 A divided, a distracted, a perplexed, an irresolved heart. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 78 Perplex'd and troubl'd at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply. View more context for this quotation 1712 S. Centlivre (title) The perplex'd lovers. 1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator 150 To find she was likely to continue refractory to what afforded so great a Prospect of Happiness to her, rendered him extremely uneasy and perplexed. 1836 E. B. Browning Poet's Vow i. xiii Mad winds that howling go!..perplexed seas That stagger from their blow! 1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood x. 73 A very perplexed expression took hold of Mr. Jasper's face. 1927 Dict. National Biogr. 1912–21 at Butlin, Sir Henry Trentham He was never too busy to help a perplexed student. 1996 Independent 6 Jan. (Suppl.) 11/1 The diarist-narrator is quizzed by his perplexed mother. 2. Of a situation, condition, etc.: complicated, confused, involved. Of language, an account, etc.: causing confusion, difficulty, or doubt because of its complexity; unnecessarily complicated or elaborate. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [adjective] > difficult or complex nice?a1500 perplexeda1522 perplex1534 intricablea1540 implicate1555 labyrinthed1641 complexed1646 knotted1649 complicated1656 plicated1666 complicatea1687 complex1715 Byzantine1937 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) ix. vii. 50 Tharwith this ilk wilsum perplexit way Bakwart he held. 1576 A. Fleming tr. J. L. Vives in Panoplie Epist. 399 Ambrosius is..in some places..perplext and cumbersome to bee vnderstoode. 1657 J. Trapp Comm. Job xxxvi. 22 A Teacher of perplexed things, an unriddler of Riddles. a1668 W. Davenant Man's the Master (1669) iii. i This is the most perplext encounter that I ever saw. 1723 H. Rowlands Mona Antiqua Restaurata xi. 170 It is no wonder it came to pass that many passages in Roman and British histories have appear'd so perplex'd and intricate. 1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers ii. x. 287 His style is disagreeable, being full of perplexed sentences. 1832 G. C. Lewis Remarks Use & Abuse Polit. Terms xi. 93 On this point his language is somewhat perplexed. 1885 Dict. National Biogr. VI. 122/1 Besides clearing away a jungle of perplexed notions, he [sc. Robert Boyle] collected a number of highly suggestive facts and observations. 1956 ‘M. Innes’ Appleby plays Chicken ii. vii. 200 This has been a perplexed business. I think I've seen my way through it. 2001 Beaver (Nexis) Nov. 54 A century and a half of Canada's perplexed, complicated relationship with nation and empire. 3. Of a material object: having complex structure; having the parts intricately intertwined; tangled. Also figurative. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > [adjective] snarledc1440 entangled1561 intrinsicate1562 interlaqueate1575 kangled1577 intricate1579 ravelled1594 tangled1600 perplexed1605 intrincea1616 intertangleda1625 intangle1642 snarly1647 intertwisteda1659 tangly1813 reticular1818 uncardeda1833 tanglesome1888 warpled1897 pretzelled1938 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Gg3^v The formes of Substances..(as they are nowe by compounding and transplanting multiplied) are so perplexed . View more context for this quotation 1637 J. Milton Comus 2 Their way Lies through the perplex't paths of this dreare wood. 1690 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) V. 14 I much admired the contorsions of the Thea roote, which was so perplext, large & intricate. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. x. 413 The history and inventions of past ages, recorded by these perplexed [Chinese] symbols, must frequently prove unintelligible. 1777 E. Burke Let. to Sheriffs Bristol (1920) 19 The way still before you is intricate, dark, and full of perplexed and treacherous mazes. 1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xlviii. 556 They were wholly unable to discover any outlet from this maze of difficulty, which did not lie through some perplexed and entangled thicket. 1913 B. Mallet Brit. Budgets 171 The object of maintaining the existing proportion between direct and indirect taxation, still the only treasury finger-post to the perplexed paths of incidence. 1994 Sugar Nov. 88/2 To round off the look, the new-found chums had equally perplexed hairdos. B. n. With plural agreement. With the. Perplexed people as a class.In later use in allusion to Guide for the Perplexed (also Guide of the Perplexed), the English name of a work of Jewish theology (Arabic dalālat al-ḥā'irīn, Hebrew mōreh ha-nĕḇūḵīm) by Moses ben Maimon (Maimonides). ΚΠ 1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 22 They had more neede of others consolation, then themselues, being sorowfull, to presume to comfort the perplexed. a1647 T. Hooker Applic. of Redempt.: 9th & 10th Bks. (1657) x. 582 It's a special print and impression of the work of Gods Faithfulness, that he commonly carries the hearts of the perplexed, and their own spirits carry them to such who have been most exercised under such trials. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede II. iv. xxix. 264 For sleep comes to the perplexed—if the perplexed are only weary enough. 1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men I. iii. 320 [He] found himself surrounded by the perplexed and half-hearted. a1922 A. C. T. Meynell Poems (1923) 135 We the unready, the perplexed, the cold, Must shape the Eternal in our thoughts anew. 1988 M. Charney Hamlet's Fictions Introd. 6 If Hamlet is an intellectual at all, he is a negative intellectual who is not an appropriate guide for the perplexed. 2003 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 23 Mar. xiv. 3 Then, about four years ago, the numbers dwindled, and in 2000 the birds abandoned the area completely. Mayor Suzanne M. Walters of Stone Harbor is among the perplexed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.a1500
随便看	orchard land orchard maker orchard oriole orchard pear tree orchard robber orchard tree orchard wall orchard-breaker orchard-circled orchard-decked orchard-fresh orchard-side orchard-ward orchardbreaker orchardcircled orcharddecked orcharded orchardfresh orchardgrass orcharding orchardings orchardist orchardists orchardman orchardmen