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Puzzling vs Surreptitious - What's the difference?

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Puzzling is a related term of surreptitious.


As adjectives the difference between puzzling and surreptitious

is that puzzling is difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing while surreptitious is stealth]]y, furtive, [[hidden|well hidden, covert (especially movements).

As a verb puzzling

is .

As a noun puzzling

is time spent pondering something confusing.

puzzling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing.
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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Time spent pondering something confusing.

    • surreptitious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Stealth]]y, furtive, [[hidden, well hidden, covert (especially movements).
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.}}

    Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * surreptitiously