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Definitions for baffling
baf·fling
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Princeton's WordNet
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
bafflingadjective
puzzling and frustrating
ChatGPT
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
Baffling
of Baffle
Bafflingadjective
frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling currents, winds, tasks
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
baffling
Is said of the wind when it frequently shifts from one point to another.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of baffling in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of baffling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of baffling in a Sentence
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.
To make a dry run and ... have the ability to escape, and then go back in, it is a little baffling.
But the records were scattered across seven different yet equally baffling patient data portals on a single hospital campus.
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.
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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