Mystified

Definition: Mystified

Mystified

Adjective

1. Totally perplexed and mixed up; "all this duncical nonsense has my brains metagrobolized"- Wall Street Journal.

Modern Usage: Mystified

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	It doesn't matter that George Bush was never mystified by a supermarket scanner, or that Bill Clinton's haircut never held up any aiplane. (Women of the House; writing credit: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason)
Movie/TV Titles	Mystified (1991)
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Commercial Usage: Mystified

Domain	Title
Books	Maigret Mystified (reference) The Mystified Fortune-Teller and Other Tales from Psychotherapy (reference) The Mystified Magistrate (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Photo Album: Mystified

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Astronomers have long been mystified by observations of a few hot, bright, apparently young ... Credit: NASA.
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Usage Frequency: Mystified

"Mystified" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 52.63% of the time. "Mystified" is used about 95 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	52.63%	50	48,117
Lexical Verb (past tense)	26.32%	25	69,787
Adjective (general or positive)	14.74%	14	93,893
Noun (proper)	6.32%	6	143,867
Total	100.00%	95	N/A

Expression: Mystified

Modern Translation: Mystified

Language		Translations for "mystified"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		getäuscht (deceived, deludet, hoodwinked). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"里霧中 (all at sea, be in a maze, be totally at a loss, bewildered, in a fog, lose one's bearings, up in the air). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�"りむちゅう (all at sea, be in a maze, be totally at a loss, bewildered, in a fog, lose one's bearings, up in the air). (various references)

Pig Latin		ystifiedmay

Romanian		intrigat (curious). (various references)

Russian		озадачивать озадаченный (puzzled). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mistifikovan, tajnovit. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations & Misspellings: Mystified

Derivations
	Words ending with "mystified": demystified. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Mystified" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: massified, mistified. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Rhyming with "Mystified"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "mystified" (pronounced mi"stufī'd)
6	-s t u f ī' d	justified, testified, unjustified.
5	-t u f ī' d	certified, decertified, fortified, gratified, identified, misidentified, mortified, notified, quantified, ratified, rectified, stratified, unidentified.
4	-u f ī' d	acidified, amplified, calcified, clarified, classified, codified, crucified, Declassified, dignified, disqualified, diversified, electrified, exemplified, falsified, gentrified, glorified, horrified, indemnified, intensified, liquefied, magnified, modified, mollified, mummified, nullified, ossified, overqualified, oversimplified, pacified, personified, petrified, purified, qualified, reclassified, reunified, signified, simplified, solidified, specified, terrified, typified, unclassified, undignified, unified, unqualified, unspecified, unverified, verified.
3	-f ī' d	dissatisfied, satisfied, sulfide, unsatisfied.
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Anagrams: Mystified

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-f-i-i-m-s-t-y"
	-2 letters: fideism, fideist, misedit, semifit, stimied, stymied.
	-3 letters: demits, dimity, feisty, fisted, imides, misfit, misted, sifted, stymie, teiids, tidies.
	-4 letters: defis, deify, deism, deist, deity, demit, diets, dimes, disme, dites, ditsy, edify, edits, emits, emyds, feist, fetid, imide, imids, items, medii, metis, midis, midst, misty, mites, mitis, mysid, sited, smite, stied, stime, stimy, styed.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-f-i-i-m-s-t-y"
	+2 letters: demystified, demystifies, misidentify.
	+3 letters: demystifying.
	+5 letters: misidentifying.
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