Baffling (Adjective)
Meaning
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".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The mysterious illness presented a baffling diagnosis to the medical team.
- Solving the intricate puzzle was a baffling task that required immense patience and skill.
- The economic crisis has presented the government with a baffling dilemma, balancing inflation control with unemployment relief.
- I find it baffling that I have forgotten how to do simple math operations since leaving college.
- Physicists were confronted with a baffling paradox in quantum mechanics, as experiments revealed strange properties of matter at a subatomic level.