(transitive) To cause to feel baffled; to puzzle. / (transitive) To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated. / (transitive, obsolete) To plague; to vex; to torment.

(obsolete) intricate; difficult

(obsolete) A difficulty.

Confusing or puzzling. / Bewildering.

present participle of perplex

The state or quality of being perplexed; puzzled or confused. / Something that perplexes. / In information theory, a measurement of how well a probability distribution or model predicts a sample.

Confused or puzzled. / Bewildered.

simple past tense and past participle of perplex

plural of perplexity

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of perplex