puzzle

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of.
2. A game for one or more people that is more or less difficult to work out or complete.
3. A crossword puzzle.
4. A jigsaw puzzle.
5. A riddle.
6. Something made with marvellous skill; something of ingenious construction.
7. The state of being puzzled; perplexity.

Verb

1. To perplex, confuse, or mystify; to cause (someone) to be faced with a mystery, without answers or an explanation.
2. To think long and carefully, in bewilderment.
3. To make intricate; to entangle.

Conceptos

rompecabezas

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enigma

consternar

puzzle

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desconcertar

intrigar

juego de ingenio

meditar

perplejidad

perturbar

puzle

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reflejar

acertijo

dejar perplejo

desatinar

descabezarse

maraña

adivinanza

romperse los cascos

agitar

confundir

embarazo

enredar

Sinónimos

riddle

enigma

perplex

confuse

bewilder

problem

mystery

confound

conundrum

baffle

mystify

trouble

dumbfound

jigsaw puzzle

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perplexity

embarrass

question

❓

stupefy

nonplus

amaze

puzzler

stagger

startle

disconcert

stun

poser

bewilderment

astound

pose

jigsaw

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take aback

quiz

appal

quandary

mislead

dismay

alarm

stick

get

teaser

vex

abash

secret

㊙️

like

distress

gravel

mystifier

brain teaser

bemuse

query

flummox

floor

complicate

entangle

beat

ruffle

rumpus

scepticism

shake

snag

snorter

stir up

stumble

surprise

suspect

tangle

throw

tickler

trammel

trivia

truncheon

twist

web

why

have no idea

profound secret

hard problem

point in dispute

design

poverty

be confusing

engima

puzzled state

bepuzzle

mind-breaker

addle

agitate

annoy

anomaly

arouse

astonish

bedevil

boggle

brainteaser

brain-teaser

charade

club

confusion

consider

contradiction

delude

destitution

devise

difficulty

dilemma

disarrange

disarray

discomfit

discompose

disturb

doubt

elude

embroil

enmesh

fascinate

figure out

fool

headache

hitch

incite

incomprehensible

inconvenience

intricacy

labyrinth

matter

maze

numb

nut

paradox

patchwork

pleach

plight

ponder

predicament

preoccupy

prepossess

put out

puzzlement

rebus

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈpʌzəl/

Etimología (Inglés)

Origin uncertain; originally pusle. Possibly from pose (“to perplex, puzzle, interrogate”) + -le (frequentative suffix). The verb (1590s) “to perplex” seems to predate the noun “state of being perplexed” (circa 1600), “perplexing question” (1650s), “toy” (1814).