BAFFLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does baffled mean? 

• BAFFLED (noun)
  The noun BAFFLED has 1 sense:

1. people who are frustrated and perplexed

  Familiarity information: BAFFLED used as a noun is very rare.

• BAFFLED (adjective)
  The adjective BAFFLED has 1 sense:

1. perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment

  Familiarity information: BAFFLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAFFLED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

People who are frustrated and perplexed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

the children's faces clearly expressed the frustration of the baffled

Hypernyms ("baffled" is a kind of...):

people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)

• BAFFLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment

Synonyms:

at sea; baffled; befuddled; bemused; bewildered; confounded; confused; lost; mazed; mixed-up

Context example:

she felt lost on the first day of school

Similar:

perplexed (full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment)

 Context examples 

A drop of rain on her cheek recalled her thoughts from baffled hopes to ruined ribbons.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A favourite trick of his was to lose his trail in running water and then lie quietly in a near-by thicket while their baffled cries arose around him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The wind was favourable, and I had thought to tow them back under sail, but the wind baffled, then died away, and our progress with the oars was a snail’s pace.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He tried to steal in, but was baffled by your wakefulness.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Baffled so far, I changed my ground.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But I was baffled in every attempt I made for this purpose.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From the baffled look upon Holmes’s face, I could see clearly that he did.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mars is covered in gullies and dry riverbeds, but scientists have always been baffled as to how water could have existed on the freezing world.

(Methane Gas May Have Caused Greenhouse Effect on Young Mars, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It would be impossible to describe the expression of hate and baffled malignity—of anger and hellish rage—which came over the Count's face.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)