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2. loiter, dawdle, diddle, diddle-daddle, dally, dillydally; kill time, waste time, beguile, pass time, while away time, bide time, lose time; doodle, lallygag, loll, fritter away time, fool away time; loaf, idle, squander away time, Inf lazy away, put-upon, adj. taken advantage of, imposed upon, put-out, inconvenienced; beset, troubled, disturbed, distressed, bothered, pestered, disquieted; embarrassed, mortified, abashed, chagrined, humiliated. puzzle, n. 1. acrostic, crossword puzzle; anagram, logogriph, word game; jigsaw puzzle; Chinese puzzle.
2. enigma, mystery, riddle, conundrum, question, question mark; problem, dilemma, quandary, plight, predicament; maze, labyrinth, tangle, knot; secret, arcanum, closed or sealed book; oracle, dark saying, obscure statement, hidden meaning, riddle of the sphinx; puzzler, poser, Inf. hard nut to crack, Inf. brain-teas-er, Inf. mind-boggier, Inf. stumper, Inf. floorer.
3. perplexity, bewilderment, confoundment, bafflement, puzzlement, puzzledness; uncertainty, incertitude, confusion, disconcertment.
-v. 4. confuse, bewilder, perplex, nonplus, baffle, confound, mystify, Inf. bamboozle, Inf. buffalo, Inf. stump, Inf. stick, Inf. beat, Inf. lick, Inf. get; disconcert, stagger, stun, daze, astonish, astound, dum-found, Brit. Dial, boggle, Inf. floor, Inf. flabbergast, gravel; fuddle, befuddle, muddle, bemuddle, fog, befog, mix up; fool, delude, trick, outwit, hoodwink, bluff, distract.
5. ponder, study, consider, contemplate, meditate, reflect, muse, brood, deliberate, ruminate; ponder over, think over, study over, meditate upon or over, reflect upon or over, muse over, mull over, brood over, deliberate over or upon, puzzle over; think about, cogitate, give thought to; think hard, rack one's brains, Inf. sweat or stew over.
6. puzzle out solve, resolve, figure out, work out, think through or out, sort out, reason out, Inf. get; crack, decode, decipher, break down, unlock, find the key; untangle, unravel, untie, unriddle, clear up. puzzled, adj. perplexed, mystified, staggered, flustered; bewildered, muddled, baffled, dazzled, dazed, mixed up; confused, confounded, dumfounded, Sl. stumped, Inf. flummoxed; lost, fogged, in a fog, in a cloud, at a loss, puzzler, n. poser, brain-teaser, brain-twister, stickler; dilemma, mystery, enigma, quandary. See puzzle (def. 2). puzzling, adj. 1. enigmatic, enigmatical, baffling, bewildering, perplexing, confounding, mystifying; inexplicable, unexplainable, insoluble, insolvable, Obs. inextricable.
2. mysterious, esoteric, occult, hermetic, hermetical; secret, hidden, concealed, veiled, masked, arcane, cryptic, perdu; obscure, indistinct, indefinite, unclear, shadowy, nebulous, vague; inscrutable, oracular, sphingine, sphinxian, sphinxlike; mystic, mystical, cabalistic; strange, weird, bizarre; odd, curious, peculiar, queer.
3. abstruse, recondite, abstract, heavy, Sl. heavy-duty; difficult, hard, over one's head, Inf. tough; complex, complicated, perplexed, Inf. tricky; intricate, involved, labyrinthine, tangled, knotty, crabbed; impenetrable, unfathomable, incomprehensible, past or beyond comprehension or understanding, undecipherable.
4. ambiguous, equivocal, discreet, noncommital, secretive, covert, clandestine, under-the-table, under-the-counter; evasive, shifty, circuitous. pyromaniac, n. arsonist, Inf. firebug, fire buff, pyrophile, incendiary, fire-setter.