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Perplexing vs Labyrinthine - What's the difference?

perplexing | labyrinthine |

As adjectives the difference between perplexing and labyrinthine

is that perplexing is confusing or puzzling while labyrinthine is physically resembling a labyrinth; with the qualities of a maze.

As a verb perplexing

is (perplex).

perplexing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • confusing or puzzling
  • bewildering
  • Verb

    (head)
  • labyrinthine

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Physically resembling a labyrinth; with the qualities of a maze.
  • * 1996 , Steen L. Jensen, H. Gregerson. M. H. Shokouh-Amin, F. G. Moody, (eds.), Essentials of Experimental Surgery: Gastroenterology , page 27/4
  • In the pyloric canal, muscular ridges are more fixed than elsewhere and produce quite a labyrinthine surface.
  • * 2011 , Lincoln Child, Deep Storm , page 185
  • Crane trotted along the labyrinthine corridors of deck 3, accompanied by a young marine with close-cropped blond hair.
  • Twisting, convoluted, baffling, confusing, perplexing.
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  • * 2000 , Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation , page 51
  • Any attempt to answer that question would carry us into the labyrinthine corridors of Jefferson's famously elusive mind.
  • * 2005 , Michael W. Riley, "Plato's Cratylus: Argument, form, and structure", page 103
  • By coupling "essence" with "name" within a series of contraposed pairs of names, Socrates indicates the point to which he thinks his labyrinthine argument has led so far in the Cratylus .

    Synonyms

    * (resembling a labyrinth) labyrinthal, labyrinthial, labyrinthian, labyrinthic, labyrinthical, labyrinthiform * baffling, confusing, convoluted