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Puzzler vs Puzzled - What's the difference?

puzzler | puzzled |

As a noun puzzler

is a situation or problem; an enigma.

As an adjective puzzled is

confused or perplexed.

As a verb puzzled is

(puzzle).

puzzler

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A situation or problem; an enigma.
  • (video games) A video game in which the player is presented with (usually abstract) puzzles to solve.
  • One who solves puzzles as a hobby.
  • * 1927 , Frederic Gregory Hartswick, Read the Pictures (page v)
    • he commits what to a hardened puzzler seems an unforgivable sin when he uses a picture of a two-masted ship followed by HTER for the word BRIGHTER.

    puzzled

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Confused or perplexed.
  • * 1848 , , 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.
  • * 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
    • 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.

    Derived terms

    * puzzledly * puzzledness

    Verb

    (head)
  • (puzzle)