Tricky vs Puzzling - What's the difference?
tricky | puzzling | Related terms |
hard to deal with, complicated
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Difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing.
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Tricky is a related term of puzzling.
As adjectives the difference between tricky and puzzling
is that tricky is hard to deal with, complicated while puzzling is difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing.As a verb puzzling is
.As a noun puzzling is
time spent pondering something confusing.tricky
English
Adjective
(er)- They were in a tricky situation.
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- A tricky salesman can sell anything.