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flummoxed

Speech parts

1. flummoxed - Adjective

2. flummoxed - Verb

Meaning

flummoxed (comparative more flummoxed, superlative most flummoxed)

Confused, perplexed or flustered.
Synonyms: bewildered, mystified, perplexed, stumped; see also Thesaurus:confused
He's good at what he knows, but he gets completely flummoxed when new problems arise.

flummoxed

simple past and past participle of flummox

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Examples

My mind still runs too fast. If we get the wrong fabric or something is stitched the wrong way, I get so angry and so flummoxed that I start spelling my words, just to slow myself down. William Ivey Long

Why do you look like cheese, Beka?" Nestor asked me quietly. "We've got help." I was too flummoxed to tell him I hadn't expected help to come so fast. Miracles aren't for the likes of me, didn't Nestor know that? Only the nobility gets them. Tamora Pierce

Everyone comes up to me saying, 'Cooee, Julie! Hello!' as if I know them. Of course I don't bloody know them. Am I flummoxed by it? Sometimes. I think, 'Ooh, love, go easy.' For a time, I did feel this pressure that I had to be funny, but it passes. Julie Walters

His googly or the ‘doosra’ flummoxed plenty of batsmen and soon, Ajmal was translating his white-ball success into the Test arena. Source: Internet

Conventional wisdom holds that the gifted Damon Wayans was so flummoxed by the terrible roles he received that, in an act of desperation that doubles as a sad cry for attention, he sabotaged his future on by queening it up in the infamous “Mr. Source: Internet

I was flummoxed by how quickly my mood could turn from one of giddy writerly happiness to horrified despair. Source: Internet

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