perplexing
adjective
                                                                                                                            
                                                            per·plex·ing
                    
                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                  pər-ˈplek-siŋ  
                                                      
                                                          
            
                                
              
          
                                                      : difficult to understand : causing confusion                                      
              
                             
A perplexing feature of insomnia is that people seem to overestimate their sleep loss.— Rita L. Atkinson et al.
Rita L. Atkinson et al.
                                       Chronic acalculous biliary disorders are among the most perplexing diagnostic and therapeutic challenges in medicine.— Richard M. Gore
Richard M. Gore
                                       A perplexing problem, often encountered by cat owners, is that of a refusal to use the litterbox after using it for years in the past.— Susan L. Mathews
Susan L. Mathews
                         
                
                    
                                                      perplexingly
                                      adverb
                                                                                                      
                        
                        
    
          
         
                        a perplexingly complex problem    
  
                  
          
         
                        This was all that I could observe of her in the dim light and under the perplexingly strange circumstances of our meeting.    
        
        
            — Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins          
  
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