From <span class="searchmatch">perplexing</span> + -ness. <span class="searchmatch">perplexingness</span> (uncountable) The quality of being <span class="searchmatch">perplexing</span>....
From <span class="searchmatch">perplexing</span> + -ly. <span class="searchmatch">perplexingly</span> (not comparable) In a way or to an extent that is <span class="searchmatch">perplexing</span>. 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William...
+ -ly. confoundingly (comparative more confoundingly, superlative most confoundingly) In a confounding way; confusingly; bewilderingly; <span class="searchmatch">perplexingly</span>....
perplexiveness (uncountable) (obsolete) The quality of being <span class="searchmatch">perplexing</span>; <span class="searchmatch">perplexingness</span> 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth...
discombobulatingly, superlative most discombobulatingly) So as to discombobulate; <span class="searchmatch">perplexingly</span>. 2008 January 10, Tom Vanderbilt, “You Can Go Home Again, but Why?”,...
could steady his nerves to answer my questions, and then he answered <span class="searchmatch">perplexingly</span> and brokenly. 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVI, in Jeeves...
room but we’ll be all relaxed with our pals and won’t use it – which is <span class="searchmatch">perplexingly</span>, excludingly foreign to [a general] audience", while Harry Mount says...
produce uncertainty or confusion; bewilderingly. Synonyms: bafflingly, <span class="searchmatch">perplexingly</span>, puzzlingly 1824, Charles Robert Maturin, The Albigenses , chapter 16:...