A free service provided by Writers Nexus International

Writing Resources:
  • New Novelist Software
  • Writer Circles
  • Author Me
  • FirstWriter.com
  • Novel Advice
  • Robin's Nest for Writers
  • The Scriptorium
  • Women on Writing


A Writer's Dictionary:

nonplused Definition


Dictionary Home » Words Starting with N » nonentity ... northerlies » nonplused


nonplus
verb
    (US)
    nonplussed, nonplussing, nonplused, nonplusing
    1. To puzzle; to disconcert.
      Thesaurus: baffle, take aback, bewilder, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, dumbfound, flabbergast, mystify, perplex, puzzle, stump.
Etymology: 16c: from Latin non plus no further.



Click Here