perplexed — 英語辞典

形容詞

1. Confused or puzzled.

   例文

   The scientists were perplexed by the new discovery.

   She was perplexed. 'Plege'illegience is plege'illegience!'"

   その他の例文 (1)

   Perplexed, Wheeler continues to play for a moment or two, keeping to his own internal time. But after another moment it becomes clear that something is wrong, something which everybody can see but him. He steals a glance up from his instrument, and finds that Luján is staring at him. In fact, every musician in the orchestra is staring at him, all of them wearing the same expression of stony, barely-contained ang— They've been replaced.

2. Bewildered.

3. Entangled; labyrinthine.

   用法

   • 廃語

   例文

   その他の例文 (1)

   "[…] But come, Lady, we are too near the mouth of the cavern; let us seek its inmost recesses. […]" "Though all your actions are noble, […] is it fitting that I should accompany you alone into these perplexed retreats? Should we be found together, what would a censorious world think of my conduct?"

形容詞

1. full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment

   反義語

   unperplexed

   例文

   perplexed language

   perplexed state of the world