mystified
pronunciation
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- Adjective:
- totally perplexed and mixed up
Word Origin
- mystified (adj.)
- "bewildered, puzzled," 1863, past participle adjective from mystify.
Example
- 1. Professor minford says he is mystified by this .
- 2. The latter pair say they are mystified by what has unfolded .
- 3. Doctors are often mystified about the cause when drug-taking youngsters fall ill .
- 4. The markets , for their part , are mystified by the failure of governments to take simple and timely steps to sort out the problems they face .
- 5. Tokyo ( reuters ) - a japanese man who was mystified when food kept disappearing from his kitchen , set up a hidden camera and found an unknown woman living secretly in his closet , japanese media said friday .