unbaffleable

English

Adjective

unbaffleable (comparative more unbaffleable, superlative most unbaffleable)

1. Unable to be baffled.
   • 1894, “Henry Lazarus”, in Good Reading about Many Books Mostly by Their Authors‎^[1], Unwin, page 138:

     I am the Major Le - Caron of the literary world, and am unbaffleable. One evening I spied my victim at his club; I knew him, he did not know me. When he reads this he will know me, and, as he is an irascible man, he will probably swear

   • 1895, “Ishmael Lones”, in Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature, Volume 63‎^[2], volume 63, page 80i:

     Half-a-dozen stories of the unbaffleable ‘ investigator ’ make up this second series, and highly entertaining they are.

   • 1910, Rhoda Broughton, The Devil and the Deep Sea‎^[3], Macmillan, page 247:

     "Was that one of the letters that always made you cry at Sta. Margherita?" enquired Jessica, with her unbaffleable persistency.

   • 1924, William Alfred Quayle, Out-of-doors with Jesus‎^[4], Abingdon Press, page 78:

     The sea wind, with its feet wet with the surges of the unbaffleable sea, with its voice which has caught music from hearing the waves sing on the shores of all the earth, with its loneliness unfathomable for sadness […]

   • 1962 June, Lt. Col. Forrest K. Kleinman, United States Army Combat Forces Journal, Volume 12‎^[5], volume 12, Association of the United States Army, page 53:

     Back in 1942-43, we had a computer that was unbaffleable and jeep transportable. It was what you might call a “ neural computer." In a matter of seconds it could zip through complex problems of supply and demand that would have blown the fuses of today's electronic marvels. And it didn't just rattle off paper solutions. It gifted the gab and master-minded the machinations that materialized them.

   • 1994 May 4, Diane Scharper, “Perhaps Our Greatest Living Poet”, in Baltimore Sun‎^[6], archived from the original on June 20, 2021:

     Most of Ms. Brooks' characters are poor, but the poems do not describe material poverty. They describe spiritual richness that exists despite such poverty. A woman cooking dinner looks at the squirrel in her yard, envying its "silver skill . . . thinking it a mountain and a star, unbaffleable; with sentient twitch and scurry."

   • 2019 November 27, Elliot Hannon, “Donald Trump Is Now Saying that Democrats Want to “Change the Name Thanksgiving””, in The Slatest‎^[7], The Slate Group, archived from the original on November 29, 2022:

     That even baffled the normally unbaffleable crew at Fox & Friends, who did their best to contextualize and explain Trump’s comments, even briefly pinning it on Obama, naturally.

Antonyms

• baffleable