puzzlingadjective
uk/ˈpʌz.əl.ɪŋ/us/ˈpʌz.əl.ɪŋ/difficult to explain or understand:
It's a rather puzzling film.
a puzzling situation
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Difficult to understand
- (as) clear as mud idiom
- abstruse
- ambiguity
- ambiguous
- arcane
- blurred
- diffuse
- equivocal
- esoteric
- fathomless
- garble
- get it into your thick head idiom
- obscure
- opaque
- oracular
- over your head idiom
- paradox
- puzzler
- recherché
- veiled
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