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Puzzling synonyms

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uncertain
Not known for certain; questionable.
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  1. Not known for certain; questionable.
  2. Subject to change; variable:
  3. Not determined; undecided:
ambiguous
Open to more than one interpretation:
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  1. Open to more than one interpretation:
  2. Not clear; indefinite; vague
  3. Doubtful or uncertain:
abstruse
Difficult to understand; recondite:
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  1. Difficult to understand; recondite:
  2. Hard to understand because of being extremely complex, intellectually demanding, highly abstract, etc.; deep; recondite
hard
Difficult to endure; causing hardship or suffering:
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  1. Difficult to endure; causing hardship or suffering:
  2. Lacking in shade; undiminished:
  3. Stern, strict, or demanding:
arcane
Hidden or secret
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  1. Hidden or secret
  2. Understood by only a few; esoteric
  3. Known or understood by only a few:
cabalistic
Of or relating to a cabal; secretive and cliquish.
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  1. Of or relating to a cabal; secretive and cliquish.
  2. Having a secret or hidden meaning; occult:
cryptic
Having a hidden or ambiguous meaning; mysterious; baffling
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  1. Having a hidden or ambiguous meaning; mysterious; baffling
  2. Obscure and curt in expression
  3. (Zool.) Serving to conceal, as the form or coloration of certain animals
enigmatic
Of or resembling an enigma; puzzling:
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  1. Of or resembling an enigma; puzzling:
  2. Of or like an enigma; perplexing; baffling
  3. Mysterious.
mysterious
Having unknown qualities
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  1. Having unknown qualities
  2. Arousing wonder or curiosity, especially by being difficult to explain or understand:
  3. Of, relating to, or being a religious mystery:
mystic
Of or relating to mysticism or mystics:
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  1. Of or relating to mysticism or mystics:
  2. Deeply or mysteriously spiritual; mystical:
  3. Mystical
mystical
Of, relating to, or stemming from mysticism or immediate understanding of spiritual matters, especially when experienced as direct communion with God:
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  1. Of, relating to, or stemming from mysticism or immediate understanding of spiritual matters, especially when experienced as direct communion with God:
  2. Mystic
  3. Mysterious; enigmatic
occult
Beyond human understanding; mysterious
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  1. Beyond human understanding; mysterious
  2. Designating or of certain arts, studies, or practices, as magic, alchemy, or astrology, involving mysterious powers that some people believe can affect the way things happen
  3. Beyond the realm of human comprehension; inscrutable:
Find another word for puzzling. In this page you can discover 19 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for puzzling, like: uncertain, ambiguous, mystifying, perplexing, abstruse, hard, obscure, difficult, arcane, cabalistic and cryptic.

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  • The results obtained are sometimes puzzling, because it is.

  • Comyn partly explored the northern and western affluents of the Ghazal, and threw some light on the puzzling hydrography and nomenclature of those tributaries.

  • He studied the pictures and began puzzling through the words, determined to discover why a woman who could not read books chose to keep this one in her chamber.

  • The existence of these two works explains the widely-spread taste for ornithology in England, which is to foreigners so puzzling, and the zeal - not always according to knowledge, but occasionally reaching to serious study - with which that taste is pursued.

  • The meat was smoking hot and the knives and forks were performing strange antics and jumping here and there in quite a puzzling way.

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