puzzle
puzzle is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as verb, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making. Face value is 26 in Scrabble and 29 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- verb. Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making.
- verb. The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle.
- transitive verb. To perplex; to confuse; to embarrass; to put to a stand; to nonplus.
- transitive verb. To make intricate; to entangle.
- transitive verb. To solve by ingenuity, as a puzzle; -- followed by out; as, to puzzle out a mystery.
- intransitive verb. To be bewildered, or perplexed.
- intransitive verb. To work, as at a puzzle; as, to puzzle over a problem.
- noun. a game that tests your ingenuity
- noun. a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution
"he loved to solve chessmate puzzles"
"that's a real puzzler"
- verb. be a mystery or bewildering to
"This beats me!"
"Got me--I don't know the answer!"
- verb. be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide
"We puzzled over her sudden departure"
Synonyms
mystifier, puzzler, teaser, amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, stick, stupefy, vex
Common word forms
puzzled, puzzler, puzzles, puzzling, puzzlement
Words from these letters
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