Synonyms for baffling
baf·fling

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1. baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, toughadjective

   making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

   "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"

   Synonyms:
   subtle, gnarled, involved, knotty, problematical, debatable, ruffianly, bad, rugged, toughened, problematic, snarly, gnarly, hard, tangled, sturdy, knobbed, tough, knotted, elusive, tortuous, convoluted, snarled

   Antonyms:
   easy

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1. bafflingadjective

   Synonyms:
   disconcerting, frustrating, confusing, perplexing

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1. List of paraphrases for "baffling":

   disconcerting, bewildering, puzzling, perplexing

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How to use baffling in a sentence?

1. James Nuber:

   This is utterly baffling.

2. Helena Cronin, 1992:

   Imagine a world without Darwin. Imagine a world in which Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace had not transformed our understanding of living things. What... would become baffling and puzzling..., in urgent need of explanation? The answer is: practically everything about living things....

3. Joe Rogan:

   I talk s --- for a living — that’s why this is so baffling to me, if you’re taking vaccine advice from me, is that really my fault ? What dumb s --- were you about to do when my stupid idea sounded better ? ‘ You know that dude who made people eat animal d --- s on TV ? How does he feel about medicine ? ’ If you want my advice, do n’t take my advice.

4. Shevrin Jones:

   It could still be in the storage area, it's so baffling. It's so bad.

5. Kelli Thomas-Drake:

   But the records were scattered across seven different yet equally baffling patient data portals on a single hospital campus.