Puzzled vs Troubled - What's the difference?
puzzled | troubled |
Confused or perplexed.
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* 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
(puzzle)
Anxious, worried, careworn.
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
(trouble)
As adjectives the difference between puzzled and troubled
is that puzzled is confused or perplexed while troubled is anxious, worried, careworn.As verbs the difference between puzzled and troubled
is that puzzled is past tense of puzzle while troubled is past tense of trouble.puzzled
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Vanity Fair, Bradbury and Sons, 11:
- (...) when the day of the departure came, between her two customs of laughing and crying, Miss Sedley was greatly puzzled how to act.
- Once or twice he scratched his head, and stared out of the window with a puzzled frown. And each time, after a brief survey of the other side of Half Moon Street, he turned back again to the breakfast table with a grin.