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Perplexing vs Doubtful - What's the difference?

perplexing | doubtful | Related terms |

Perplexing is a related term of doubtful.


As adjectives the difference between perplexing and doubtful

is that perplexing is confusing or puzzling while doubtful is subject to, or causing doubt.

As a verb perplexing

is .

perplexing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • confusing or puzzling
  • bewildering

    • Verb

    (head)

    • doubtful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * doubtfull (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Subject to, or causing doubt
  • or showing doubt, sceptical
  • Undecided or of uncertain outcome
  • (obsolete) Fearsome, dreadful.
  • *, Bk.XIV, Ch.vii:
  • *:‘With whom,’ seyde Sir Percivale, ‘shall I fyght?’ ‘With the moste douteful champion of the worlde.’
  • Improbable or unlikely
  • Suspicious, or of dubious character
  • Unclear or unreliable
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=E.R. Eddison, title=The Worm Ouroboros
    • , passage=The pupils of her great eyes were large in the doubtful lamplight, swallowing their green fires in deep pools of mystery and darkness.}}