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View synonyms for ˈbaffling

ˈbaffling

/ ˈbæflɪŋ /

adjective

  1. impossible to understand; perplexing; bewildering; puzzling
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈbafflingly, adverb
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Example Sentences

How Ragsdale can live with all this day-in-day-out intensity from strangers is baffling.

Around my own friends, someone will wind up a conversation with a shrug and a baffling—to me—utterance of “Haters gonna hate.”

This is the baffling, awkward dichotomy that is MTV in 2014.

When he chooses to cap a climactic chase seen with yet another baffling fall, we feel cheated.

They have also been baffling, alternating between high hope and disappointment.

At eight o'clock the wind fell to a calm and was afterwards baffling and light from north to east and south-east.

During one year I succeeded in baffling all the activity of the French police, and of our own spies.

An indecisive action took place in which, owing to baffling calms, only the British van was engaged.

Brazzier was a man of tigerish temper, and he became infuriated in a few seconds at this repeated baffling of his purpose.

Thus was lost almost his last chance of retaining his crown, and baffling the designs of his enemies.

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