PUZZLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does puzzled mean? 

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

1. filled with bewilderment

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUZZLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Filled with bewilderment

Synonyms:

at a loss; nonplused; nonplussed; puzzled

Context example:

puzzled that she left without saying goodbye

Similar:

perplexed (full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment)

 Context examples 

More puzzled than ever, I retraced my steps to Kensington.

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

All the time she look for something, I do not know what. I am puzzled.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I was fairly puzzled by it all.

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

Speech was always easy with her, and these interruptions would have puzzled her had she not decided that it was because he was a remarkable type.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But no letter appeared, and she was completely puzzled.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He was surprised, and looked at them in a puzzled way.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It was Wolf Larsen’s turn to be puzzled.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

This reading had puzzled me extremely at first, but by degrees I discovered that he uttered many of the same sounds when he read as when he talked.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

What has puzzled scientists ever since is this: they detected less than 1 percent of the dicyanoacetylene gas needed for the cloud to condense.

(Scientists Find 'Impossible' Cloud on Titan, NASA)

I had always my eye open for seafaring men, with one leg or two, and I remember this one puzzled me.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)