perplexing

perplex | American Dictionary

perplex
verb[ T ]
us/pərˈpleks/
to cause someone to be confused or uncertain over something that is not understood:
The symptoms of the disease have continued to perplex her doctors.

perplexed

adjectiveus/pərˈplekst/
Just when it appeared that interest rates were headed up, they fell, leaving some analysts clearly perplexed.

Examples of perplex

perplex
This book offers another, at times perplexing theory about conversation; but as an empirical investigation of conversation, it is a hardscrabble venture.
Read by itself, it may perplex or anger.
The question that has perplexed many researchers and scholars in the study of creativity is what is creativity?
Sounds can be temporally as well as spatially perplexing.
And experienced practitioners of syntax will find a tremendous range of anomalies and perplexing data that require explanation.
Indeed, this sequel may be rather perplexing to those who have not read the earlier work.
This is the curiosity that has perplexed those engaged in study of the disorder for nearly a century.
A little of what was learned in those early studies was perplexing and remains unexplained.
Eliade has perplexed scholars for almost half a century.
Each incarnation plots the feared consequences and perplexing possibilities of boundary transgressions between the human and the machine quite differently.
It is human nature to seek meaning behind experiences, and indeed patients with schizophrenia seek meaning in the bizarre and perplexing phenomena of their psychoses.
Evidentialists, in contrast, can maintain a deterministic outlook without being perplexed.
C-s are also dismissed as instances of true coordination, on grounds that are in some cases simply perplexing.
Cross-national and cross-cultural differences continue to stimulate and perplex psychiatric epidemiologists.
Via this order he can, at any time, survey the general whole, without needing to perplex himself with the details.
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