Synonyms for baffling
baf·fling

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1. baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, toughadjective

   making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

   "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"

   Synonyms:
   subtle, gnarled, involved, knotty, problematical, debatable, ruffianly, bad, rugged, toughened, problematic, snarly, gnarly, hard, tangled, sturdy, knobbed, tough, knotted, elusive, tortuous, convoluted, snarled

   Antonyms:
   easy

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1. bafflingadjective

   Synonyms:
   disconcerting, frustrating, confusing, perplexing

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1. List of paraphrases for "baffling":

   disconcerting, bewildering, puzzling, perplexing

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How to use baffling in a sentence?

1. Helena Cronin, 1992:

   Imagine a world without Darwin. Imagine a world in which Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace had not transformed our understanding of living things. What... would become baffling and puzzling..., in urgent need of explanation? The answer is: practically everything about living things....

2. Edward Dahlberg:

   Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

3. Jennifer Moore:

   It's baffling to us.

4. James Nuber:

   This is utterly baffling.

5. Shevrin Jones:

   It could still be in the storage area, it's so baffling. It's so bad.