perplex — 英語辞典

動詞

1. To cause to feel baffled; to puzzle.

   用法

   • 他動詞

2. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated.

   用法

   • 他動詞

   例文

   What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view.

   その他の例文 (1)

   The Ways of Heav’n are dark and intricate, Puzzled in Mazes, and perplext with Errors; Our Underſtanding traces ’em in vain, Loſt and bewilder’d in the fruitleſs Search; […]

3. To plague; to vex; to torment.

   用法

   • 廃語
   • 他動詞

   例文

   Chloe's the wonder of her sex, 'Tis well her heart is tender, How might such killing eyes perplex, With virtue to defend her.

   All night no ruder air perplex ⁠Thy sliding keel, till Phosphor, bright ⁠As our pure love, thro’ early light Shall glimmer on the dewy decks.

形容詞

1. intricate; difficult

   用法

   • 古語

   例文

   How the soul directs the spirits for the motion of the body, according to the several animal exigents, is as perplex in the Theory, as either of the former.

   Finally, I explore possible audience interpretations of the film and offer some alternative reading strategies of these highly perplex sketches.

名詞

1. A difficulty.

   用法

   • 廃語

動詞

1. be a mystery or bewildering to

   同義語

   vexstickgetpuzzlemystifybafflebeatposebewilderflummoxstupefynonplusgravelamazedumbfound

   上位語

   confusethrowfoxbefuddlefuddlebedevilconfounddiscombobulate

   例文

   This beats me!

   Got me — I don't know the answer!

   その他の例文 (2)

   a vexing problem

   This question really stuck me

2. make more complicated

   同義語

   complicate

   上位語

   changealtermodify

   例文

   There was a new development that complicated the matter