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baffling

verb

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of baffle

  2. Puzzling, perplexing, bewildering.

    • [T]he primitive concept of the generative act was one of awe and worship, accorded to a force which was incomprehensible and baffling.
    • Ministers must restart trade negotiations with Brussels immediately to sort out the "baffling" array of post-Brexit rulesand regulations that now threaten much of the UK'sexport trade to the EU

  3. Frustrating.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. An act of foiling or thwarting.

      • […] the contrast of the one determined and still triumphant will of the man, with the transient and vain bafflings of winds or waves, of gods, or monsters […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at baffling. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at baffling. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at baffling

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA