puzzling

puzzling
adj
1. enigmatic, enigmatical, baffling, bewildering, perplexing, confounding, mystifying; inexplicable, unexplainable, insoluble, insolvable, Obs. inextricable.
2. mysterious, esoteric, occult, hermetic, hermetical; secret, hidden, concealed, veiled, masked, arcane, cryptic, perdu; obscure, indistinct, indefinite, unclear, shadowy, nebulous, vague; inscrutable, oracular, sphingine, sphinxian, sphinxlike; mystic, mystical, cabalistic; strange, weird, bizarre; odd, curious, peculiar, queer.
3. abstruse, recondite, abstract, heavy, Sl. heavy-duty; difficult, hard, over one's head, Inf. tough; complex, complicated, perplexed, Inf. tricky; intricate, involved, labyrinthine, tangled, knotty, crabbed; impenetrable, unfathomable, incomprehensible, past or beyond comprehension or understanding, undecipherable.
4. ambiguous, equivocal, discreet, noncommital, secretive, covert, clandestine, under-the-table, under-the-counter; evasive, shifty, circuitous.

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