Nonplus vs Confuse - What's the difference?
nonplus | confuse | Related terms |
A state of perplexity or bewilderment.
*, I.46:
*:altering Vaudemont'', to ''Vallemontanus , and metamorphosing them, by suting them to the Græcian or Latin tongue, we know not what to make of them, and are often at a non-plus .
* South
to perplex or bewilder someone; to confound or flummox
To thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.
(obsolete) To rout; discomfit.
To mix up; to puzzle; to bewilder.
To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
To mistake one thing for another.
Nonplus is a related term of confuse.
As verbs the difference between nonplus and confuse
is that nonplus is to perplex or bewilder someone; to confound or flummox while confuse is to thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.As a noun nonplus
is a state of perplexity or bewilderment.nonplus
English
Noun
(es)- Both of them are a perfect nonplus and baffle to all human understanding.