Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Frustrating; disconcerting; confusing; perplexing: as, a baffling wind, that is, one which frequently shifts from one point to another.
- noun An arrangement or system of partitions, plates, or rings whereby a tendency to motion in an undesired direction is prevented. See baffle-plate, baffle-ring.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
baffle . - adjective
puzzling andfrustrating
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
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Examples
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"They couldn't communicate with them," Foels said of officers 'troubled attempts to ascertain the group's motive, which he termed baffling, bizarre and uncommon.
unknown title 2009
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And one of the most baffling is the Mpemba Effect.
The Mpemba Effect ewillett 2010
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She delights, there, in baffling us, and demands blind following.
Laetare Sunday Jean 2009
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And one of the most baffling is the Mpemba Effect.
The Mpemba Effect ewillett 2010
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What I always find baffling is that any industry would want to limit what is essentially cheap or next to free publicity and advertising for their product.
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She delights, there, in baffling us, and demands blind following.
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But it is just plain baffling to watch him take the same regal attitude toward a Congress in which his party holds solid majorities in both houses.
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Kapleau defines it as a formulation, in baffling language, pointing to ultimate truth.
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And what's more baffling is that they counted us out even though there's the wild card, too.
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Whenever this occurred the discovery of a fresh outrage was sure to follow, but, so far, the miscreants had succeeded in baffling not only the police, but also the many farm hands who had formed themselves into a band of volunteer watchmen, determined to bring the cattle maimers to justice.
sonofgroucho commented on the word baffling
It is baffling to find that I am currently the only Wordie to list "baffling"!
December 21, 2006