Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Free from perplexity or complication; simple.
  • Not perplexed; not harassed; not embarrassed.

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  • adjective Not confused or puzzled.

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  • adjective experiencing no difficulty or confusion or bewilderment

Etymologies

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From un- +‎ perplexed.

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Examples

  • Mothers Day what more do the disfranchised the underprivileged expect somnolent society unperceptive unperplexed on the steps of the Jamma Masjid human rejects ,, a gateway to Gods house where man ignores the Mother only God respects dedicated to all beggar mothers..and also to fathers that took the mantle of motherhood..for one reason or the other..

    Archive 2009-05-01 photographerno1 2009

  • You have the unperplexed attitude of a boy raised by priests.

    It Never Changes Rogers 2007

  • They have but a single idea to present at a time, he said; they seize without hesitation on the first words that offer for its expression, unperplexed by any such choice of terms as would surely occur to maturer minds; and most important of all, perhaps, they are wholly unembarrassed by limiting qualifications arising from a fuller knowledge of the subject.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

  • It was a soft and tranquil atmosphere, it was a world (I think now) very happy and unperplexed.

    John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

  • Sorrow may be soothed by quiet loveliness, but perplexities absorb all our faculties, and we do not heed the beauty of the world, which is simple and unperplexed.

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science Various

  • Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good.

    The Federalist, Nos. 1 and 2 1909

  • Jack's eyes were for all this beauty, -- "the vast, unconscious scenery of my land," the line that drifted in his thoughts, -- his own consciousness, taken up into his contemplation, seeming as vast and as unperplexed.

    A Fountain Sealed Anne Douglas Sedgwick 1904

  • The moving air neither struck nor caressed, but there breathed a sense of coming and going, unhurried and unperplexed, from far away to far away.

    Foes Mary Johnston 1903

  • For my part, I was fascinated by the exquisite grace and beauty of that fluted grove, crowned with pointed leaves and feathery heads, the lightness, the vigour, the charm as distinct as a voice of that unperplexed luxuriating life.

    Lord Jim 1899

  • His blond curls clustered above a brow almost as innocent as a child's; his frank and brave blue eyes, his free step, his mellow laugh, bespoke the perfect animal, unharmed by civilization, unperplexed by the closing century's fallacies and passions.

    A Mountain Woman Elia Wilkinson Peattie 1898

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