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perplexing

  • 1 obvención

    • perplexing
    • perquisite
    • perquisites

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > obvención

  • 2 desconcertante

    adj.
    disconcerting.
    * * *
    1 disconcerting, upsetting
    * * *
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    adjetivo disconcerting
    * * *
    = bewildering, disconcerting, stunning, baffling, dizzying, mystifying, puzzling, perplexing, overwhelming.
    Ex. The citation of conference proceedings poses unique and potentially bewildering problems.
    Ex. The other element is found in the stenotype, that somewhat disconcerting device encountered usually at public meetings.
    Ex. The trends themselves are not hard to anticipate, although the stunning pace of development is often not fully appreciated.
    Ex. 'I find this all baffling,' Meek commented, arching her eyebrows.
    Ex. Unfortunately, the dizzying array of computing and networking environments often frustrates end users' attempts to navigate the Internet = Desafortunadamente, con frecuencia la variedad tan desconcertante de entornos informáticos y de redes frusta los intentos de los usuarios finales de navegar por la red.
    Ex. 'It's not mystifying if you know him well,' Carmichael reflected, shuffling uneasily under her steady gaze.
    Ex. The argument for expressiveness is that it helps users to find their way through the systematic arrangement, which is sometimes puzzling to them.
    Ex. The public library is a complex institution, evolving through many decades of human history and colliding today with the perplexing realities of change, declining funding, and shifting purpose.
    Ex. More people are taking the dip into online business and abandoning the huge corporations with overwhelming superiors and unearthly hours.
    ----
    * de modo desconcertante = bewilderingly.
    * * *
    adjetivo disconcerting
    * * *
    = bewildering, disconcerting, stunning, baffling, dizzying, mystifying, puzzling, perplexing, overwhelming.

    Ex: The citation of conference proceedings poses unique and potentially bewildering problems.

    Ex: The other element is found in the stenotype, that somewhat disconcerting device encountered usually at public meetings.
    Ex: The trends themselves are not hard to anticipate, although the stunning pace of development is often not fully appreciated.
    Ex: 'I find this all baffling,' Meek commented, arching her eyebrows.
    Ex: Unfortunately, the dizzying array of computing and networking environments often frustrates end users' attempts to navigate the Internet = Desafortunadamente, con frecuencia la variedad tan desconcertante de entornos informáticos y de redes frusta los intentos de los usuarios finales de navegar por la red.
    Ex: 'It's not mystifying if you know him well,' Carmichael reflected, shuffling uneasily under her steady gaze.
    Ex: The argument for expressiveness is that it helps users to find their way through the systematic arrangement, which is sometimes puzzling to them.
    Ex: The public library is a complex institution, evolving through many decades of human history and colliding today with the perplexing realities of change, declining funding, and shifting purpose.
    Ex: More people are taking the dip into online business and abandoning the huge corporations with overwhelming superiors and unearthly hours.
    * de modo desconcertante = bewilderingly.

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    disconcerting
    * * *

    desconcertante adjetivo
    disconcerting
    desconcertante adjetivo disconcerting
    ' desconcertante' also found in these entries:
    English:
    baffling
    - disconcerting
    - perplexing
    - bewildering
    - unnerving
    * * *
    disconcerting
    * * *
    : disconcerting

    Spanish-English dictionary > desconcertante

  • 3 cada vez menor

    (adj.) = decreasing, dwindling, diminishing, thinning, fading, waning, declining, falling, shrinking, receding, sinking, ebbing, descending
    Ex. It is impossible to read the library press today without reading about the increasing costs of maintaining, and the decreasing budgets of libraries, and particularly about the increasing costs of technical services.
    Ex. Squeezed between the upper and nether milestones of increasing demand and dwindling resources, individual librarians develop ways in which to make their jobs easier.
    Ex. It is remarkable how, in an economy with diminishing job opportunities, librarians compensate for their inability to demonstrate the value of their skills by seeking the protection of educational and certification requirements.
    Ex. News of boundless timber reserves spread, and before long lumberjacks from the thinning hardwood forests of New England swarmed into the uncharted area with no other possessions than their axes and brawn and the clothing they wore.
    Ex. With the fading significance of these physical forms, some of the rationale for unit entries has disappeared.
    Ex. This article discusses the impact of growing number of students and waning financial resources on library services and acquisition focusing on book shortages, security problems and inadequacy of staffing.
    Ex. The public library is a complex institution, evolving through many decades of human history and colliding today with the perplexing realities of change, declining funding, and shifting purpose.
    Ex. As well as cuts imposed by the Government, libraries were faced with inflation in the price of books and periodicals, and a falling rate of exchange between the pound and the dollar.
    Ex. Many challenges lie ahead for those selling children's books with increased competition and shrinking profit margins.
    Ex. Poland is currently enjoying a steadily rising national income, declining inflation, receding unemployment and an educational boom.
    Ex. It has not yet been decided what strategies libraries will use to face the crisis of rising personnel costs and sinking funds for book acquisitions.
    Ex. Every publisher, materials vendor, systems vendor and bibliographic utility that serve libraries face sharp competition for a share of the ebbing library market.
    Ex. The second reason is that companies have to take care of costs to meet the descending price rate of the market.
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    (adj.) = decreasing, dwindling, diminishing, thinning, fading, waning, declining, falling, shrinking, receding, sinking, ebbing, descending

    Ex: It is impossible to read the library press today without reading about the increasing costs of maintaining, and the decreasing budgets of libraries, and particularly about the increasing costs of technical services.

    Ex: Squeezed between the upper and nether milestones of increasing demand and dwindling resources, individual librarians develop ways in which to make their jobs easier.
    Ex: It is remarkable how, in an economy with diminishing job opportunities, librarians compensate for their inability to demonstrate the value of their skills by seeking the protection of educational and certification requirements.
    Ex: News of boundless timber reserves spread, and before long lumberjacks from the thinning hardwood forests of New England swarmed into the uncharted area with no other possessions than their axes and brawn and the clothing they wore.
    Ex: With the fading significance of these physical forms, some of the rationale for unit entries has disappeared.
    Ex: This article discusses the impact of growing number of students and waning financial resources on library services and acquisition focusing on book shortages, security problems and inadequacy of staffing.
    Ex: The public library is a complex institution, evolving through many decades of human history and colliding today with the perplexing realities of change, declining funding, and shifting purpose.
    Ex: As well as cuts imposed by the Government, libraries were faced with inflation in the price of books and periodicals, and a falling rate of exchange between the pound and the dollar.
    Ex: Many challenges lie ahead for those selling children's books with increased competition and shrinking profit margins.
    Ex: Poland is currently enjoying a steadily rising national income, declining inflation, receding unemployment and an educational boom.
    Ex: It has not yet been decided what strategies libraries will use to face the crisis of rising personnel costs and sinking funds for book acquisitions.
    Ex: Every publisher, materials vendor, systems vendor and bibliographic utility that serve libraries face sharp competition for a share of the ebbing library market.
    Ex: The second reason is that companies have to take care of costs to meet the descending price rate of the market.

    Spanish-English dictionary > cada vez menor

  • 4 chocar con

    v.
    to collide with, to come into collision with, to bang into, to bash into.
    El auto colisionó con el árbol The car collided with the tree.
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    (v.) = conflict with, run into, lock + horns (with), grate against, grate on, collide (with)
    Ex. These more detailed sets do not conflict with the more general sets of categories.
    Ex. If they were watching the nimble movements of a compositor as he gathered the types from the hundred and fifty-two boxes of his case, they would run into a ream of wetted paper weighted down with paving stones.
    Ex. Although the movie has a well-defined sense of character and dramatic incident, a handsome and clear visual presentation, and an interesting feel for inflated men locking horns, it lacks thematic preciseness.
    Ex. The new feminist philosophies of the body tend sometimes to grate against this project by valorizing the body but devalorizing gender.
    Ex. His personality, furthermore, appeared to grate on the average television viewer.
    Ex. The public library is a complex institution, evolving through many decades of human history and colliding today with the perplexing realities of change, declining funding, and shifting purpose.
    * * *
    (v.) = conflict with, run into, lock + horns (with), grate against, grate on, collide (with)

    Ex: These more detailed sets do not conflict with the more general sets of categories.

    Ex: If they were watching the nimble movements of a compositor as he gathered the types from the hundred and fifty-two boxes of his case, they would run into a ream of wetted paper weighted down with paving stones.
    Ex: Although the movie has a well-defined sense of character and dramatic incident, a handsome and clear visual presentation, and an interesting feel for inflated men locking horns, it lacks thematic preciseness.
    Ex: The new feminist philosophies of the body tend sometimes to grate against this project by valorizing the body but devalorizing gender.
    Ex: His personality, furthermore, appeared to grate on the average television viewer.
    Ex: The public library is a complex institution, evolving through many decades of human history and colliding today with the perplexing realities of change, declining funding, and shifting purpose.

    Spanish-English dictionary > chocar con

  • 5 colisionar

    v.
    1 to collide (coche).
    Ella colisionó en la avenida She collided at the avenue.
    2 to clash (ideas).
    3 to collide with.
    El auto colisionó con el árbol The car collided with the tree.
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    1 (chocar) to collide (con/contra, with), crash (con/contra, into)
    2 (enfrentarse) to clash
    * * *
    verb
    to collide, crash
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    colisionar con o contra — [tren, autobús, coche] to collide with; [persona, ideas] to clash with, conflict with

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    verbo intransitivo (frml) to collide
    * * *
    = collide (with), crash.
    Ex. The public library is a complex institution, evolving through many decades of human history and colliding today with the perplexing realities of change, declining funding, and shifting purpose.
    Ex. It doesn't take a wild imagination to grasp what happens to a rider who crashes with protective gear on and one who goes down in street clothes.
    * * *
    verbo intransitivo (frml) to collide
    * * *
    = collide (with), crash.

    Ex: The public library is a complex institution, evolving through many decades of human history and colliding today with the perplexing realities of change, declining funding, and shifting purpose.

    Ex: It doesn't take a wild imagination to grasp what happens to a rider who crashes with protective gear on and one who goes down in street clothes.

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    colisionar [A1 ]
    vi
    ( frml); «coches/trenes/aviones» to collide
    colisionó con un camión he collided with a truck
    * * *

    colisionar verbo intransitivo to collide, crash
    ' colisionar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    chocar
    English:
    collide
    - crash
    * * *
    1. [vehículo] to collide, to crash ( con o contra into); [placas tectónicas, asteroides] to collide
    2. [ideas, intereses] to clash
    * * *
    v/i collide ( con with);
    colisionar frontalmente collide head-on
    * * *
    : to collide
    * * *
    colisionar vb to collide / to crash into

    Spanish-English dictionary > colisionar

  • 6 decreciente

    adj.
    declining, decreasing.
    * * *
    1 decreasing, diminishing
    * * *
    ADJ decreasing, diminishing
    * * *
    adjetivo decreasing (before n)
    * * *
    = decreasing, fading, waning, declining, shrinking, sinking, ebbing.
    Ex. It is impossible to read the library press today without reading about the increasing costs of maintaining, and the decreasing budgets of libraries, and particularly about the increasing costs of technical services.
    Ex. With the fading significance of these physical forms, some of the rationale for unit entries has disappeared.
    Ex. This article discusses the impact of growing number of students and waning financial resources on library services and acquisition focusing on book shortages, security problems and inadequacy of staffing.
    Ex. The public library is a complex institution, evolving through many decades of human history and colliding today with the perplexing realities of change, declining funding, and shifting purpose.
    Ex. Many challenges lie ahead for those selling children's books with increased competition and shrinking profit margins.
    Ex. It has not yet been decided what strategies libraries will use to face the crisis of rising personnel costs and sinking funds for book acquisitions.
    Ex. Every publisher, materials vendor, systems vendor and bibliographic utility that serve libraries face sharp competition for a share of the ebbing library market.
    ----
    * no decreciente = non-decreasing.
    * rendimiento decreciente = diminishing returns.
    * * *
    adjetivo decreasing (before n)
    * * *
    = decreasing, fading, waning, declining, shrinking, sinking, ebbing.

    Ex: It is impossible to read the library press today without reading about the increasing costs of maintaining, and the decreasing budgets of libraries, and particularly about the increasing costs of technical services.

    Ex: With the fading significance of these physical forms, some of the rationale for unit entries has disappeared.
    Ex: This article discusses the impact of growing number of students and waning financial resources on library services and acquisition focusing on book shortages, security problems and inadequacy of staffing.
    Ex: The public library is a complex institution, evolving through many decades of human history and colliding today with the perplexing realities of change, declining funding, and shifting purpose.
    Ex: Many challenges lie ahead for those selling children's books with increased competition and shrinking profit margins.
    Ex: It has not yet been decided what strategies libraries will use to face the crisis of rising personnel costs and sinking funds for book acquisitions.
    Ex: Every publisher, materials vendor, systems vendor and bibliographic utility that serve libraries face sharp competition for a share of the ebbing library market.
    * no decreciente = non-decreasing.
    * rendimiento decreciente = diminishing returns.

    * * *
    ‹orden› decreasing ( before n)
    el decreciente interés por estos temas the decreasing o diminishing o waning interest in these matters
    * * *

    decreciente adjetivo
    decreasing ( before n)
    decreciente adjetivo decreasing
    ' decreciente' also found in these entries:
    English:
    descend
    - wane
    * * *
    [tasa, porcentaje, tipo] declining, decreasing, falling;
    una tendencia decreciente a downward trend;
    anote estas cantidades por o [m5] en orden decreciente note down these quantities in descending order
    * * *
    adj decreasing, diminishing

    Spanish-English dictionary > decreciente

  • 7 confuso

    adj.
    1 confused, addled, bewildered, muddle-headed.
    2 confusing, perplexing, tangled, confusional.
    3 confused, blurry, blurred, obscure.
    4 confused, cluttered, disordered, mixed-up.
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    1 (ideas) confused
    2 (estilo etc) obscure, confused
    3 (recuerdos, formas) vague, blurred
    4 (mezclado) mixed up
    5 figurado (turbado) confused, embarrassed
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    (f. - confusa)
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=poco claro) [ideas, noticias] confused; [recuerdo] hazy; [ruido] indistinct; [imagen] blurred

    tiene las ideas muy confusas — he has very confused ideas, his ideas are very mixed up

    2) (=desconcertado) confused

    no sé qué decir, estoy confuso — I don't know what to say, I'm overwhelmed

    * * *
    - sa adjetivo
    a) <idea/texto/explicación> confused; < recuerdo> confused, hazy; < imagen> blurred, hazy; < información> confused
    b) ( turbado) embarrassed, confused
    * * *
    = confusing, dim [dimmer -comp., dimmest -sup.], distraught, in confusion of purpose, indistinct, muddled, entangled, topsy-turvy, puzzled, messy [messier -comp., messiest -sup.], puzzling, mixed up, confused, in a state of turmoil, clouded, in a spin, dishevelled [disheveled, -USA], in disarray, foggy [foggier -comp., foggiest -sup.], blurry [blurrier -comp., blurriest -sup.], confounding, garbled, indistinctive, nonplussed [nonplused], addled, in a fog, chaotic, disorderly, shambolic, bleary [blearier -comp., bleariest -sup.], in a twirl, at sea, all over the place.
    Ex. The nature of the compilation of the code led to rather little consensus, and many alternative rules, which together made the code rather confusing.
    Ex. The genesis of this brave new world of solid state logic, in which bibliographic data are reduced to phantasmagoria on the faces of cathode-ray tubes (CRT), extends at most only three-quarters of a decade into the dim past.
    Ex. Before she could respond and follow up with a question about her distraught state, Feng escaped to the women's room.
    Ex. Without the ability to select when faced with these choices we would be like demented dogs chasing every attractive smell that reaches our noses in complete confusion of purpose.
    Ex. The typescript will be fuzzy and indistinct without the smooth, firm surface which the backing sheet offers.
    Ex. This paper analyses and proposes practical solutions to key problems in on-line IR, particulary in relation to ill-defined and muddled information requirements, concept representation in searching and text representation in indexing.
    Ex. The rapid spreading of electronic mail, bulletin boards, and newsletters give rise to an entangled pattern of standards.
    Ex. At a later stage he may make up topsy-turvy stories with reversals of the pattern; finally he will improvise and impose hiw own.
    Ex. While scanning the area under supervision, the librarian may detect persons who appear restless or puzzled.
    Ex. The author discusses current attempts to organize electronic information objects in a world that is messy, volatile and uncontrolled.
    Ex. The argument for expressiveness is that it helps users to find their way through the systematic arrangement, which is sometimes puzzling to them.
    Ex. They are mixed up as the talk meanders about, apparently without conscious pattern.
    Ex. She sat a long time on the couch, confused, questioning, pushing her thoughts into new latitudes.
    Ex. Before long the teachers were in a state of turmoil over the issue.
    Ex. The article 'The clouded crystal ball and the library profession' explains how the concepts of knowledge utilisation and information brokering are beginning to have an impact on the definition of the librarian's role.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'Digital revolution leaves pharmacists in a spin'.
    Ex. Ironically, there are very few who have realized the capitalist dream of easy profits and the concept of a new knowledged-based economy now looks somewhat disheveled.
    Ex. Sometimes cataloguers access other libraries' OPACs in order to resolve difficult problems when important parts of the item being catalogued are missing or are in disarray.
    Ex. What they will not do is clear up the foggy area in most cataloguers' minds, the area that leads to an inconsistent application of half-understood principles'.
    Ex. On the other hand, a distinction that was thought to be quite clear turns out to be rather blurry.
    Ex. The need to control for the effect of confounding variables is central to empirical research in many disciplines.
    Ex. The client phoned in the afternoon to tell me that there was garbled data again in the large text field they use for notes.
    Ex. This research suggests that people are threatened by categorizations that portray them as too distinctive or too indistinctive.
    Ex. He was nonplussed when the crowd he expected protesting his policy of arresting illegal immigrants turned out to be seven.
    Ex. They were too addled to come to any definite conclusion.
    Ex. After practice, however, the usually affable Jackson looked to be in a fog as he prepared to walk to his locker.
    Ex. Otherwise the situation would become chaotic.
    Ex. Empirical studies of decision making have found that the process is more disorderly than described in rational models.
    Ex. Hundreds of usually loyal fans booed and jeered as the tortured singer delivered a shambolic and apparently drunken performance.
    Ex. Her eyes were dry and her head bleary from spending all week totally consumed with work.
    Ex. I had never been to a professional golf tournament, and the excitement and action had my head in a twirl.
    Ex. This site seems to be giving tons of options and am completely at sea as to how to go about choosing the best one.
    Ex. Mr Hammond said the Liberal Democrats are ' all over the place' on the economy.
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    * de manera confusa = hazily.
    * estar confuso = be at sixes and sevens with, be at a nonplus, be all at sea.
    * masa confusa = mush.
    * resultar confuso = prove + confusing.
    * sentirse confuso = feel at + sea, be all at sea.
    * ser confuso = be deceiving.
    * surgir de un modo confuso = grow + like Topsy.
    * todo confuso = in a state of disarray.
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo
    a) <idea/texto/explicación> confused; < recuerdo> confused, hazy; < imagen> blurred, hazy; < información> confused
    b) ( turbado) embarrassed, confused
    * * *
    = confusing, dim [dimmer -comp., dimmest -sup.], distraught, in confusion of purpose, indistinct, muddled, entangled, topsy-turvy, puzzled, messy [messier -comp., messiest -sup.], puzzling, mixed up, confused, in a state of turmoil, clouded, in a spin, dishevelled [disheveled, -USA], in disarray, foggy [foggier -comp., foggiest -sup.], blurry [blurrier -comp., blurriest -sup.], confounding, garbled, indistinctive, nonplussed [nonplused], addled, in a fog, chaotic, disorderly, shambolic, bleary [blearier -comp., bleariest -sup.], in a twirl, at sea, all over the place.

    Ex: The nature of the compilation of the code led to rather little consensus, and many alternative rules, which together made the code rather confusing.

    Ex: The genesis of this brave new world of solid state logic, in which bibliographic data are reduced to phantasmagoria on the faces of cathode-ray tubes (CRT), extends at most only three-quarters of a decade into the dim past.
    Ex: Before she could respond and follow up with a question about her distraught state, Feng escaped to the women's room.
    Ex: Without the ability to select when faced with these choices we would be like demented dogs chasing every attractive smell that reaches our noses in complete confusion of purpose.
    Ex: The typescript will be fuzzy and indistinct without the smooth, firm surface which the backing sheet offers.
    Ex: This paper analyses and proposes practical solutions to key problems in on-line IR, particulary in relation to ill-defined and muddled information requirements, concept representation in searching and text representation in indexing.
    Ex: The rapid spreading of electronic mail, bulletin boards, and newsletters give rise to an entangled pattern of standards.
    Ex: At a later stage he may make up topsy-turvy stories with reversals of the pattern; finally he will improvise and impose hiw own.
    Ex: While scanning the area under supervision, the librarian may detect persons who appear restless or puzzled.
    Ex: The author discusses current attempts to organize electronic information objects in a world that is messy, volatile and uncontrolled.
    Ex: The argument for expressiveness is that it helps users to find their way through the systematic arrangement, which is sometimes puzzling to them.
    Ex: They are mixed up as the talk meanders about, apparently without conscious pattern.
    Ex: She sat a long time on the couch, confused, questioning, pushing her thoughts into new latitudes.
    Ex: Before long the teachers were in a state of turmoil over the issue.
    Ex: The article 'The clouded crystal ball and the library profession' explains how the concepts of knowledge utilisation and information brokering are beginning to have an impact on the definition of the librarian's role.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'Digital revolution leaves pharmacists in a spin'.
    Ex: Ironically, there are very few who have realized the capitalist dream of easy profits and the concept of a new knowledged-based economy now looks somewhat disheveled.
    Ex: Sometimes cataloguers access other libraries' OPACs in order to resolve difficult problems when important parts of the item being catalogued are missing or are in disarray.
    Ex: What they will not do is clear up the foggy area in most cataloguers' minds, the area that leads to an inconsistent application of half-understood principles'.
    Ex: On the other hand, a distinction that was thought to be quite clear turns out to be rather blurry.
    Ex: The need to control for the effect of confounding variables is central to empirical research in many disciplines.
    Ex: The client phoned in the afternoon to tell me that there was garbled data again in the large text field they use for notes.
    Ex: This research suggests that people are threatened by categorizations that portray them as too distinctive or too indistinctive.
    Ex: He was nonplussed when the crowd he expected protesting his policy of arresting illegal immigrants turned out to be seven.
    Ex: They were too addled to come to any definite conclusion.
    Ex: After practice, however, the usually affable Jackson looked to be in a fog as he prepared to walk to his locker.
    Ex: Otherwise the situation would become chaotic.
    Ex: Empirical studies of decision making have found that the process is more disorderly than described in rational models.
    Ex: Hundreds of usually loyal fans booed and jeered as the tortured singer delivered a shambolic and apparently drunken performance.
    Ex: Her eyes were dry and her head bleary from spending all week totally consumed with work.
    Ex: I had never been to a professional golf tournament, and the excitement and action had my head in a twirl.
    Ex: This site seems to be giving tons of options and am completely at sea as to how to go about choosing the best one.
    Ex: Mr Hammond said the Liberal Democrats are ' all over the place' on the economy.
    * de manera confusa = hazily.
    * estar confuso = be at sixes and sevens with, be at a nonplus, be all at sea.
    * masa confusa = mush.
    * resultar confuso = prove + confusing.
    * sentirse confuso = feel at + sea, be all at sea.
    * ser confuso = be deceiving.
    * surgir de un modo confuso = grow + like Topsy.
    * todo confuso = in a state of disarray.

    * * *
    confuso -sa
    1 ‹idea/texto› confused; ‹recuerdo› confused, hazy; ‹imagen› blurred, hazy
    dio una explicación muy confusa he gave a very confused explanation
    las noticias son confusas reports are confused
    2 (turbado) embarrassed, confused
    * * *

     

    confuso
    ◊ -sa adjetivo

    a) ‹idea/texto/explicación› confused;

    ‹ recuerdo› confused, hazy;
    ‹ imagen› blurred, hazy;
    ‹ información› confused

    confuso,-a adjetivo
    1 (idea, argumento, etc) confused, unclear
    2 (desconcertado) confused, perplexed
    ' confuso' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    confusa
    - apabullar
    - despistado
    - enmarañado
    English:
    confused
    - confusing
    - flounder
    - fuzzy
    - garbled
    - indistinct
    - mixed-up
    - muddy
    - spin
    - unclear
    - foggy
    - hazy
    - muddled
    * * *
    confuso, -a adj
    1. [poco claro] [clamor, griterío] confused;
    [contorno, forma, imagen] blurred; [explicación] confused
    2. [turbado] confused, bewildered;
    estar confuso to be confused o bewildered
    * * *
    adj confused
    * * *
    confuso, -sa adj
    1) : confused, mixed-up
    2) : obscure, indistinct
    * * *
    confuso adj
    1. (persona) confused
    2. (instrucciones, explicación, etc) confused / confusing

    Spanish-English dictionary > confuso

  • 8 perplejidad

    f.
    perplexity, bewilderment.
    * * *
    1 perplexity
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=confusión) perplexity, puzzlement
    2) (=indecisión) hesitation
    3) (=situación perpleja) perplexing situation
    * * *
    femenino perplexity, puzzlement
    * * *
    = perplexity, bewilderment, puzzlement, bewilderness.
    Ex. The combination of perplexity over what is the right mix and apparent inability to represent information activity dynamically is very strong.
    Ex. Such power groups subsume the individual will as never before, and generate feelings of bewilderment, apathy, violence, alienation.
    Ex. Often we 'hide' our puzzlement behind comments like, 'I didn't like the way the story ended, did you?' or 'I wasn't convinced by the husband as a character'.
    Ex. The article 'Library scavenger hunts: a way out of the bewilderness' describes the use of library scavenger hunts to teach high school and college students research strategies and to make library use both enticing and enriching.
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    * con perplejidad = quizzically, perplexedly.
    * * *
    femenino perplexity, puzzlement
    * * *
    = perplexity, bewilderment, puzzlement, bewilderness.

    Ex: The combination of perplexity over what is the right mix and apparent inability to represent information activity dynamically is very strong.

    Ex: Such power groups subsume the individual will as never before, and generate feelings of bewilderment, apathy, violence, alienation.
    Ex: Often we 'hide' our puzzlement behind comments like, 'I didn't like the way the story ended, did you?' or 'I wasn't convinced by the husband as a character'.
    Ex: The article 'Library scavenger hunts: a way out of the bewilderness' describes the use of library scavenger hunts to teach high school and college students research strategies and to make library use both enticing and enriching.
    * con perplejidad = quizzically, perplexedly.

    * * *
    perplexity, puzzlement
    mostró perplejidad he looked perplexed o confused o puzzled
    * * *

    perplejidad sustantivo femenino
    perplexity, puzzlement
    perplejidad sustantivo femenino perplexity, puzzlement
    ' perplejidad' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    aturdimiento
    English:
    baffled
    * * *
    perplexity, bewilderment;
    me miró con perplejidad he looked at me in perplexity o bewilderment
    * * *
    f perplexity
    * * *
    : perplexity

    Spanish-English dictionary > perplejidad

  • 9 con perplejidad

    • perplex
    • perplexing

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > con perplejidad

  • 10 gratificación

    • bonus
    • bounty
    • fee
    • Gratian Decree
    • gratification
    • gratified
    • incentive
    • perjurer
    • perk
    • perk one's ears
    • perplexing
    • perquisite
    • perquisites
    • satisfaction
    • tip

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > gratificación

  • 11 perplejamente

    • perplex
    • perplexing
    • puzzlingly

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > perplejamente

  • 12 propina

    • backsheesh
    • gratuitously
    • gratuity
    • gratuity fund
    • perplexing
    • perquisite
    • perquisites
    • tip

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > propina

  • 13 confundir que

    v.
    to be confusing that, to be misleading that, to be perplexing that.

    Spanish-English dictionary > confundir que

  • 14 mixtificante

    adj.
    puzzling, perplexing, intriguing.

    Spanish-English dictionary > mixtificante

См. также в других словарях:

  • Perplexing — Per*plex ing, a. Embarrassing; puzzling; troublesome. Perplexing thoughts. Milton. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • perplexing — index complex, debatable, difficult, disputable, dubious, enigmatic, equivocal, indefinable, labyrinthine …   Law dictionary

  • perplexing — [adj] difficult to understand baffling, beyond one, complicated, confusing, convoluted, disconcerting, impenetrable, intricate, involved, knotty, mind bending, mysterious, mystifying, paradoxical, puzzling, taxing, thorny, worrying; concept 529 …   New thesaurus

  • perplexing — adj. perplexing to + inf. (it was perplexing to read so many contradictory accounts of the incident) * * * [pə pleksɪŋ] perplexing to + inf. (it was perplexing to read so many contradictory accounts of the incident) …   Combinatory dictionary

  • perplexing — [[t]pə(r)ple̱ksɪŋ[/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n If you find something perplexing, you do not understand it or do not know how to deal with it. It took years to understand many perplexing diseases... British Parliamentary procedure is perplexing at… …   English dictionary

  • Perplexing — Perplex Per*plex , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Perplexed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Perplexing}.] [L. perplexari. See {Perplex}, a.] 1. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • perplexing — adj. Perplexing is used with these nouns: ↑puzzle …   Collocations dictionary

  • perplexing — per|plex|ing [ pər pleksıŋ ] adjective confusing: a perplexing problem …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • perplexing — adjective he was famous for solving the most perplexing cases Syn: puzzling, baffling, mystifying, mysterious, bewildering, confusing, disconcerting, worrying, unaccountable, difficult to understand, beyond one, paradoxical, peculiar, funny,… …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • perplexing — UK [pə(r)ˈpleksɪŋ] / US [pərˈpleksɪŋ] adjective confusing a perplexing problem …   English dictionary

  • perplexing — adjective lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity (Freq. 2) sent confusing signals to Iraq perplexing to someone who knew nothing about it a puzzling statement • Syn: ↑confusing, ↑puzzling …   Useful english dictionary

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