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Webster 1913 Edition


Puzzlement

Puz′zle-ment

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Noun.
The state of being puzzled; perplexity.
Miss Mitford.

Definition 2024


puzzlement

puzzlement

English

Noun

puzzlement (countable and uncountable, plural puzzlements)

  1. The confusing state of being puzzled; bewilderment
  2. A puzzle.
    • 2007 October 14, Alex Mindlin, “1924, Through an Ancestor’s Eyes”, in New York Times:
      The diary contains plenty of small puzzlements.