Antonyms for puzzler
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : puhz-ler |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpʌz lər |
Definition of puzzler
Origin :- 1650s, agent noun from puzzle (v.).
- noun mystery
- “Well, it is a puzzler,” said Adams, with a quiet smile and a perplexed look.
- Extract from : « The Lonely Island » by R.M. Ballantyne
- “It will be a puzzler, without Smoker can run it down,” said Humphrey.
- Extract from : « The Children of the New Forest » by Captain Marryat
- This was a puzzler to Kelly, who only knew his own side of the question.
- Extract from : « The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim » by William Carleton
- This is a puzzler, but there is an apparent way of surmounting the difficulty.
- Extract from : « Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIV, May 1852, Vol. IV » by Various
- This question is often a puzzler for both Compositor and Reader.
- Extract from : « Shakspere & Typography » by William Blades
- "Well, if this isn't a puzzler, I don't know what is," observed Grif.
- Extract from : « Grif » by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon
- That question, which raised a general laugh at my expense, was a puzzler.
- Extract from : « The Attache » by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
- How she come to be related to that hard-as-nails Joe Stagg is a puzzler.
- Extract from : « Carolyn of the Corners » by Ruth Belmore Endicott
- All this was plain enough, but the last sentence was the puzzler.
- Extract from : « Bucky O'Connor » by William MacLeod Raine
- I can easily descend with the cavalry, but how to get the wagons down is a puzzler.
- Extract from : « An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) » by Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody)
Synonyms for puzzler
- abstruseness
- brainteaser
- braintwister
- charade
- chiller
- cliffhanger
- closed book
- conundrum
- crux
- cryptogram
- difficulty
- enigma
- grabber
- inscrutability
- inscrutableness
- mindboggler
- mystification
- occult
- oracle
- perplexity
- poser
- problem
- puzzle
- puzzlement
- question
- rebus
- riddle
- rune
- secrecy
- sixty-four-thousand-dollar question
- sphinx
- stickler
- stumper
- subtlety
- teaser
- thriller
- tough nut to crack
- twister
- whodunit
- why
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