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Princeton's WordNet

  1. baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, toughadjective

    making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

    "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"

Wiktionary

  1. bafflingadjective

    puzzling and frustrating

ChatGPT

  1. baffling

    Baffling refers to the act or circumstance of causing confusion, perplexity or puzzlement; often due to being difficult to understand or comprehend. It can also refer to something that is mysterious, enigmatic, or hard to explain.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Baffling

    of Baffle

  2. Bafflingadjective

    frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling currents, winds, tasks

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. baffling

    Is said of the wind when it frequently shifts from one point to another.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of baffling in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of baffling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of baffling in a Sentence

  1. Edward Dahlberg:

    Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

  2. David Sweat:

    To make a dry run and ... have the ability to escape, and then go back in, it is a little baffling.

  3. Kelli Thomas-Drake:

    But the records were scattered across seven different yet equally baffling patient data portals on a single hospital campus.

  4. Joe Rogan:

    I talk s --- for a living — that’s why this is so baffling to me, if you’re taking vaccine advice from me, is that really my fault ? What dumb s --- were you about to do when my stupid idea sounded better ? ‘ You know that dude who made people eat animal d --- s on TV ? How does he feel about medicine ? ’ If you want my advice, do n’t take my advice.

  5. Helena Cronin, 1992:

    Imagine a world without Darwin. Imagine a world in which Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace had not transformed our understanding of living things. What... would become baffling and puzzling..., in urgent need of explanation? The answer is: practically everything about living things....

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