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# perplexed

«perplexed» in Mova's school dictionary: **Puzzled and unsure, not able to understand something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (more perplexed, most perplexed)

### meaning for a pupil

Puzzled and unsure, not able to understand something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perplexed/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a character is confused by a strange event or a strange word

### examples

- The yokel awaking is perplexed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perplexed/#x1)
- "Please, you must not joke with me, I am greatly perplexed." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perplexed/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Then was king Belshazzar greatly affrighted, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were perplexed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.153/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «perplexed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perplexed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.