puzzled

puzzled verbal adj

see puzzle, v.

  1. Amazed; baffled; confounded; stunned; caught in a riddle; [fig.] folded; composed; [metaphor] mosaic; enigmatic; tessellated; mysteriously patterned; with a design like origami.

puzzled adv

see puzzle, v.

  1. Perplexedly; in bewilderment; without understanding; with a mystified air; in a confused manner.