baffling

English

Verb

baffling

1. present participle of baffle

Adjective

baffling (comparative more baffling, superlative most baffling)

1. puzzling and frustrating

Derived terms

• baffling wind

Translations

puzzling and frustrating

• Bulgarian: объркващ (bg) (obǎrkvašt), разстройващ (bg) (razstrojvašt)
• Finnish: hämmentävä (fi)
• French: déconcertant (fr)
• Interlingue:
• Japanese: 不可解 (fukakai)
• Latin: perplexus
• Maori: rutu (of wind), pōkīkī
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• Occitan: desmemoriant, desconcertant
• Portuguese: desconcertante (pt), desorientador
• Serbo-Croatian: zbunjujući, rastrojavajući, dekoncentrirajući
• Spanish: desconcertante
• Swedish: förvirrande (sv), förbryllande (sv)

Noun

baffling (plural bafflings)

1. An act of foiling or thwarting.
   • 1831, The Quarterly Review (London)

     […] the contrast of the one determined and still triumphant will of the man, with the transient and vain bafflings of winds or waves, of gods, or monsters […]