flummoxed
adjEtymology From flummox + -ed.
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Confused, perplexed or flustered.
- He's good at what he knows, but he gets completely flummoxed when new problems arise.
- ‘Itʼs amazing, these bosses call all the shots but are flummoxed by the smallest technological advances.’2019, Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie, Trapeze, page 85:
1 more example
- “What would you have done?” he demanded more than once of Ms. Le Pen, without ever getting a direct response. She did not seem to have one and looked flummoxed.2022 April 21, Roger Cohen, “Macron and Le Pen Trade Punches in Pivotal Debate on France’s Future”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- Derived terms
- kerflumixed, unflummoxed