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Nonplused

adjective

Filled with bewilderment. Synonyms: at a loss, nonplussed, puzzled. "Puzzled that she left without saying goodbye"

Nonplus

verb

(past & past part. nonplused or nonplussed; pres. part. nonplusing or nonplussing)

Be a mystery or bewildering to. Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex. "Got me--I don't know the answer!" , "A vexing problem" , "This question really stuck me"

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"Nonplused" Quotes from Famous Books

... heard of the expert who was called in to start the big engine? Every wheel in the plant had come to a sudden standstill. Something had gone wrong in the engine room, and the engineer was nonplused. To save his life he could not locate the trouble. The superintendent was down there mad as a hornet. A thousand operatives were idle on full pay, and it was like burning money on an ash heap. Still that engineer fumbled around. The "super" telephoned for ...

— "Say Fellows--" - Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues • Wade C. Smith

... "Huh!..." he grunted, nonplused, made suddenly ill at ease by this boy. For a moment he looked at Bonbright, curiously, appraisingly, then turned on his heel ...

— Youth Challenges • Clarence B Kelland

... she was not a person given to uncertainty, in either manner or speech. Her somewhat haughty glance, her high-arched nose, her thin lips, all showed decision and a scorn of other people's opinions and wishes. But at this moment she was plainly nonplused. ...

— Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper • James A. Cooper