0 a picture stuck onto wood or cardboard and cut into pieces of different shapes that must be joined together correctly to form the picture again:
If you're suffering from anxiety, try knitting, painting, or doing a jigsaw puzzle.
All scientists can do is keep looking at all the facts they've collected, hoping one day to fit thousands of pieces of this historical jigsaw puzzle together.
He is a key piece of a much bigger jigsaw puzzle because he was a double agent.
1 a game consisting of a lot of differently shaped pieces of cardboard or wood that you try to fit together in order to show the complete picture that the pieces make when they are all used:
I'm working on a jigsaw puzzle while catching up on my favourite shows.
On the table was an unfinished jigsaw puzzle of a painting of the Battle of Waterloo.
Ensuring the accuracy of every claim is like putting a jigsaw puzzle together in the dark, industry officials say.
My plans exist in my mind like a jigsaw puzzle, and gradually I shall be able to piece it together.
The problems facing the river and the reservoirs are connected - it's all part of the same jigsaw puzzle.
