Stumper (Noun)
Meaning
A particularly difficult or baffling question or problem.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The professor presented a stumper that had puzzled mathematicians for centuries and offered a reward for its solution.
- She thought she had studied hard, but the stumper on the final exam left her completely flummoxed.
- The cryptic clue was a stumper that no one in the room could figure out.
- After weeks of deliberation, the jury still hadn't solved the stumper of how the crime was committed.
- The science teacher saved the biggest stumper for last, a question that had been debated by experts for years.