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Synonyms and Antonyms of baffling
- the language barrier baffled everyone and discouraged us from attempting another teleconference
barring, blocking, clogging, encumbering, fettering, hampering, handicapping, hindering, hobbling, holding back, impeding, inhibiting, interfering (with), manacling, obstructing, shackling, trammeling (or trammelling), tying up (or tieing up)
arresting, checking, halting, setting back, short-circuiting, stalling, stopping
averting, forestalling, obviating, precluding, preventing
- she was baffled by the wording of the clause in the insurance policy
sticking, stumping, weirding out
abashing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discountenancing, embarrassing, fazing, flustering, mortifying, nonplussing (also nonplusing), rattling
agitating, bothering, chagrining, discomforting, discomposing, dismaying, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, stunning, unhinging, unsettling, upsetting
beguiling, cozening, deceiving, deluding, duping, fooling, gulling, hoaxing, hoodwinking, humbugging, misguiding, misleading, snowing, stringing along, taking in, tricking
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