mystify

Definition of mystify in English English dictionary: to thoroughly confuse, befuddle, or bewilder
Solar eclipses continued to mystify ancient humans for thousands of years.; be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"; {f} cause to be mysterious, make obscure; perplex, puzzle, cause a person to be unable to understand; To perplex the mind of; to puzzle; to impose upon the credulity of ; as, to mystify an opponent; make mysterious; "mystify the story"; If you are mystified by something, you find it impossible to explain or understand. The audience must have been totally mystified by the plot There was something strange in her attitude which mystified me. = baffle + mystifying mys·ti·fy·ing I find your attitude a little mystifying, Moira. = puzzling. if something mystifies you, it is so strange or confusing that you cannot understand or explain it = baffle (mystifier, from mystère; MYSTERY PLAY); To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture; make mysterious; "mystify the story
mystification: A mystifying thing
mystification: The act of mystifying or the condition of being mystified
mystified: state of enchantment as concerns person or event
mystified: Simple past tense and past participle of mystify
mystification: the act of artfully perplexing
mystification: something designed to mystify or bewilder
mystification: the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered
mystification: confusion resulting from failure to understand
mystification: The act of mystifying, or the state of being mystied; also, something designed to, or that does, mystify
mystification: {i} act of causing (someone or something) to become mysterious; obscuration; puzzlement, perplexity, act of causing a person to be unable to understand
mystification: the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered something designed to mystify or bewilder
mystified: totally perplexed and mixed up; "all this duncical nonsense has my brains metagrobolized"- Wall Street Journal
mystified: puzzled or confused
mystified: past of mystify
mystifies: third-person singular of mystify
mystifying: present participle of mystify
mystifying: of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutible workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands"
mystifying: {s} mysterious; inscrutable; hard to understand; difficult to explain; cryptic
mystifying: unusual