baffled

American  

[baf-uhld] / ˈbæf əld /

adjective

1. bewildered or perplexed; puzzled.

   I went to bed shaking my head, completely baffled and amazed at the strange turn the day had taken.

2. equipped with one or more baffles, or structures to obstruct the movement of fluids, sound, etc..

   Any spraying operations shall be done within a baffled or enclosed area of the solvent cleaning machine.

3. thwarted.

   “Every anarchist is a baffled dictator,” wrote Mussolini.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of anticipate.

Other Word Forms

• unbaffled adjective

Etymology

Origin of baffled

baffle ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Other clients said they never had a problem with Kwatra and are baffled by the accusations.

From The Wall Street Journal

What Mr. Puryear’s sculptures catch, however, are baffled viewers who might be wondering: Are his strange objects edifices, weapons or tools?

From The Wall Street Journal

A mother-of-two says she is "baffled" that smacking a child was ever legal in Wales, nearly three years on from a ban being introduced.

From BBC

Prof Stearns said the policy experts he had spoken to were "baffled" by the timing of the move to capture Uvira.

From BBC

"I'm absolutely baffled by the whole thing - I've still had no contact whatsoever from the Bangladeshi authorities despite them spreading malicious allegations about me for a year-and-a-half now," she said.

From BBC

Related Words

• astonished
• awed
• befuddled
• dazed
• mystified
• perplexed
• puzzled
• rattled
• shocked
• startled
• stunned
• surprised