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say it: pur-PLEKST
perplexed is an adjective meaning "full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment". It carries one recorded sense.
full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment
“perplexed language”
“perplexed state of the world”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for perplexed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.