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puzzlement

puzzlement noun: the confusing state of being puzzled; bewilderment.

Noun

puzzlement (countable and uncountable, plural puzzlements)

  1. The confusing state of being puzzled; bewilderment.
    • The puzzlement caused by the complex system led to great anger.
    Synonyms:
    wonderment
  2. A puzzle; something baffling.
    • Or, larger mothers might have not necessarily more progeny but more fit ones, while smaller size might be an advantage to the males, allowing them to get around faster. Finally, for creatures that continue to grow, perhaps more of the females simply live longer, gaining in stature all the time....2005 [1992], Jeanne Hanson, Deane Morrison, The World's Oddest and Most Wonderful Mammals, Insects, Birds and Plants, page 218
    • The diary contains plenty of small puzzlements.2007 October 14, Alex Mindlin, “1924, Through an Ancestor’s Eyes”, in New York Times

puzzlement meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

puzzlement in Tamil

மலைவுற்ற நிலை, வம்பலாட்டம்

puzzlement in Urdu

ہرانی, حیرت زدگی, پریشانی, الجھن

puzzlement in Bengali

puzzlement
কিংকর্তব্যবিমূঢ়তা kiṅkortobbobimuṛhota

Examples of puzzlement in a sentence

  • The doctor's eyebrows had gone synclinal from puzzlement without his awareness.
  • The púca scrunched up his face in puzzlement and rubbed his bald head.
  • Meanwhile, during all this puzzlement, those unpleasant waves, biological ripple upon nasty ripple, kept up assailment on my legs and backbone.

All 10 example sentences with puzzlement

Synonyms of puzzlement

Forms of puzzlement

pluralpuzzlements

Origin of puzzlement

From puzzle + -ment.

Questions about puzzlement

What does puzzlement mean?
Puzzlement means the confusing state of being puzzled; bewilderment.
What is puzzlement in Tamil?
Puzzlement in Tamil is மலைவுற்ற நிலை, வம்பலாட்டம். See Puzzlement meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is puzzlement?
Puzzlement is a noun.
What is the plural of puzzlement?
The plural of puzzlement is puzzlements.

Words near puzzlement in the dictionary

  1. puzzlehunts
  2. puzzleless
  3. puzzlelike
  4. puzzlemaster
  5. puzzlemasters
  6. puzzlement
  7. puzzlements
  8. puzzlenut tree
  9. puzzler
  10. puzzlers
  11. puzzlery

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: puzzlement (page history and authors); puzzlement (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); puzzlement (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); কিংকর্তব্যবিমূঢ়তা (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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