1. (of something complicated or unaccountable) cause (someone) to feel completely baffled: "she was perplexed by her husband's moodiness"
▪ complicate or confuse (a matter):"they were perplexing a subject plain in itself"
Word Originlate 15th century (as the adjective perplexed): from the obsolete adjective perplex ‘bewildered’, from Latin perplexus ‘entangled’, based on plexus ‘interwoven’, from the verb plectere.
