Intrigue vs Perplex - What's the difference?
intrigue | perplex |
A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison.
To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
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To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
* Dr. J. Scott
To cause to feel baffled; to .
To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated.
* John Locke
(obsolete) To plague; to vex; to torment.
In transitive terms the difference between intrigue and perplex
is that intrigue is to fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate while perplex is to involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated.As verbs the difference between intrigue and perplex
is that intrigue is to conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme while perplex is to cause to feel baffled; to puzzle.As a noun intrigue
is a complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.As an adjective perplex is
intricate; difficult.intrigue
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Alternative forms
* entrigueNoun
(en noun)Verb
(intrigu)citation, passage=Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story. And, on top of all that, they are ornaments; they entice and intrigue and sometimes delight.}}
- How doth it [sin] perplex and intrigue the whole course of your lives!
References
* * English heteronyms ----perplex
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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)
