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bafflingly

bafflingly adverb: in a baffling or puzzling manner.

Adverb

bafflingly (comparative more bafflingly, superlative most bafflingly)

  1. In a baffling or puzzling manner.
    • As I tried to catch the words which the stoutly-fashioned floor so bafflingly intercepted, I was also conscious of a great deal of stirring and scratching and shuffling in the room below; so that I could not escape the impression that it was full of living beings—many more than the few whose speech...1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 8, in The Whisperer in Darkness
    • To define is to specify, to trace limits; and whatever this 'something' is, it seems at once bafflingly specific and yet bafflingly without limits.1974, Samuel Louis Goldberg, An Essay on King Lear, →ISBN, page 162

Forms of bafflingly

comparativemore bafflingly
superlativemost bafflingly

Origin of bafflingly

From baffling + -ly.

Questions about bafflingly

What does bafflingly mean?
Bafflingly means in a baffling or puzzling manner.
What part of speech is bafflingly?
Bafflingly is an adverb.

Words near bafflingly in the dictionary

  1. bafflestones
  2. baffleth
  3. baffling
  4. baffling wind
  5. baffling winds
  6. bafflingly
  7. bafflingness
  8. bafflings
  9. baffol
  10. baffound
  11. baffounded

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