0 to confuse and worry someone slightly by being difficult to understand or solve: --
1 to cause someone to be confused or uncertain over something that is not understood: --
Via this order he can, at any time, survey the general whole, without needing to perplex himself with the details.
Cross-national and cross-cultural differences continue to stimulate and perplex psychiatric epidemiologists.
C-s are also dismissed as instances of true coordination, on grounds that are in some cases simply perplexing.
Evidentialists, in contrast, can maintain a deterministic outlook without being perplexed.
It is human nature to seek meaning behind experiences, and indeed patients with schizophrenia seek meaning in the bizarre and perplexing phenomena of their psychoses.
Each incarnation plots the feared consequences and perplexing possibilities of boundary transgressions between the human and the machine quite differently.
Eliade has perplexed scholars for almost half a century.
A little of what was learned in those early studies was perplexing and remains unexplained.
