baffling

English

Verb

baffling

present participle of baffle

Adjective

baffling (comparative more baffling, superlative most baffling)

puzzling and frustrating

Derived terms

baffling wind

Translations

puzzling and frustrating

Bulgarian: объркващ (bg) (obǎrkvašt), разстройващ (bg) (razstrojvašt)
Finnish: hämmentävä (fi)
French: déconcertant (fr)
Japanese: 不可解 (fukakai)
Maori: rutu (of wind)

Occitan: desmemoriant, desconcertant
Portuguese: desconcertante (pt), desorientador
Serbo-Croatian: zbunjujući, rastrojavajući, dekoncentrirajući
Spanish: desconcertante
Swedish: förvirrande (sv), förbryllande (sv)

Noun

baffling (plural bafflings)

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 […]

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