puzzle

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

énigme

puzzle

devinette

casse-tête

mystère

stupéfier

troubler

abasourdir

consterner

rendre perplexe

enigme

laisser perplexe

confondre

ébahir

perplexité

intriguer

dérouter

désorienter

égarer

méditer

refléter

ahurir

effarer

méduser

éberluer

étonner

jeu de patience

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈpʌzəl/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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).