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Puzzling vs Clandestine - What's the difference?

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Puzzling is a related term of clandestine.


As adjectives the difference between puzzling and clandestine

is that puzzling is difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing while clandestine is done or kept in secret, sometimes to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.

As a verb puzzling

is .

As a noun puzzling

is time spent pondering something confusing.

puzzling

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Verb

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    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing.
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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Time spent pondering something confusing.

    • clandestine

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Done or kept in secret, sometimes to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.
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  • * 2004 — (Penny Arcade)
    • In my imagination, all work place encounters between men and women result in clandestine sex.
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    • And I don't want anyone to think I dislike Catholicism because I don't. It's actually my favourite form of clandestine global evil.
  • (freemasonry, of a person or lodge) Not recognized as a regular member.

    • Synonyms

    * (done in secret) covert, furtive, hush-hush, secret, secretive, undercover * See also

    Related terms

    * clandestinely ----