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nonplussed definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: filled with bewilderment; "at a loss to understand those remarks"; "puzzled that she left without saying goodbye" [syn: at a loss, nonplused, nonplussed, puzzled]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Nonplus Non"plus`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nonplusedor Nonplussed; p. pr. & vb. n. Nonplusing or Nonplussing.] To puzzle; to confound; to perplex; to cause to stop by embarrassment. He has been nonplused by Mr. Dry's desiring him to tell what it was that he endeavored to prove. --Spectator.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you are nonplussed, you feel confused and unsure how to react. She expected him to ask for a scotch and was rather nonplussed when he asked her to mix him a martini and lemonade. = at a loss ADJ: usu v-link ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

addled, at a loss, at a nonplus, at a stand, at a standstill, at an impasse, baffled, bamboozled, beat, bewildered, buffaloed, confounded, dazed, floored, fuddled, in a dilemma, in suspense, licked, muddled, mystified, on tenterhooks, perplexed, puzzled, stuck, stumped, thrown