Perplex vs Perplexingly - What's the difference?
perplex | perplexingly |
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 a way or to an extent that is perplexing
* {{quote-news, 1988, January 22, Holly Greenhagen, Art Facts: Ellen Lanyon's magic art, Chicago Reader
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As a verb perplex
is to cause to feel baffled; to puzzle.As an adjective perplex
is intricate; difficult.As an adverb perplexingly is
in a way or to an extent that is perplexing.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)
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