Perplex vs Confuse - What's the difference?
perplex | confuse |
To cause to feel baffled; to .
To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated.
* John Locke
(obsolete) To plague; to vex; to torment.
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.
Confuse is a synonym of perplex.
In obsolete terms the difference between perplex and confuse
is that perplex is intricate; difficult while confuse is to rout; discomfit.As an adjective perplex
is intricate; difficult.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)
