Fluster vs Perplex - What's the difference?
fluster | perplex |
(dated) To make hot and rosy, as with drinking.
* Macaulay
(by extension) To confuse, befuddle, throw into panic by making overwrought with confusion.
To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused.
* South
To cause to feel baffled; to .
To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated.
* John Locke
(obsolete) To plague; to vex; to torment.
As verbs the difference between fluster and perplex
is that fluster is while perplex is to cause to feel baffled; to.As an adjective perplex is
(obsolete) intricate; difficult.fluster
English
Verb
- His habit of flustering himself daily with claret.
- He seemed to get flustered when speaking in front of too many people.
- The flustering , vainglorious Greeks.
Derived terms
* flustered (adjective) * flustering (adjective, present participle)Anagrams
* *perplex
English
Verb
(es)- What was thought obscure, perplexed , and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view.
- (Glanvill)
