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Nonplus vs Fluster - What's the difference?

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Nonplus is a related term of fluster.


As verbs the difference between nonplus and fluster

is that nonplus is to perplex or bewilder someone; to confound or flummox while fluster is .

As a noun nonplus

is a state of perplexity or bewilderment.

nonplus

English

Noun

(es)
  • 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
    • Both of them are a perfect nonplus and baffle to all human understanding.

    Verb

  • to perplex or bewilder someone; to confound or flummox

    • Derived terms

    * nonplussed

    fluster

    English

    Verb

  • (dated) To make hot and rosy, as with drinking.
  • * Macaulay
    • His habit of flustering himself daily with claret.
  • (by extension) To confuse, befuddle, throw into panic by making overwrought with confusion.
    • He seemed to get flustered when speaking in front of too many people.
  • To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused.
  • * South
    • The flustering , vainglorious Greeks.

    Derived terms

    * flustered (adjective) * flustering (adjective, present participle)

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