{"id":644,"date":"2025-08-27T09:07:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T14:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/?p=644"},"modified":"2025-08-27T09:07:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T14:07:26","slug":"definition-of-the-day-perplex-perplexity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/?p=644","title":{"rendered":"Definition of the Day: Perplex, Perplexity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>08.27.2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Definition: perplex| per\u00b7\u200bplex\u00a0| p\u0259r-\u02c8pleks or p\u025a\u02c8pleks (US) | p\u0259\u02c8pleks (UK)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verb (Transitive)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>:&nbsp;<\/strong>to make unable to grasp something clearly or to think logically and decisively about something<br>: to feel unable to grasp something clearly or think logically or decisively about something.<br>: to confuse a person slightly by being difficult to understand.<br>: to cause someone to be confused or uncertain over something that is not yet understood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>:&nbsp;<\/strong>to make intricate or involved<br>: to complicate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Definition: perplexity | p\u025a\u02c8plek.s\u0259.t\u032ci (US) | p\u0259\u02c8plek.s\u0259.ti (UK<\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noun<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>: a state of confusion<br>: a complicated and difficult situation or thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>: an artificial intelligence start-up that offers a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question with cited sources.<br>: considering how intricate, complex, and challenging the AI-landscape continues to be, it makes sense to name a company that is striving to be a more reliable, fact-checked version of other AI engines after the situation that it finds itself in.<br>: privately held company that was last valued at $14 billion, according to <em>Reuters<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perplexity.ai\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.perplexity.ai\">Try it out!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Definitions sourced from Cambridge Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Wikipedia, and Yahoo Finance.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08.27.2025 Definition: perplex| per\u00b7\u200bplex\u00a0| p\u0259r-\u02c8pleks or p\u025a\u02c8pleks (US) | p\u0259\u02c8pleks (UK) Verb (Transitive) 1 :&nbsp;to make unable to grasp something clearly or to think logically and decisively about something: to feel unable to grasp something clearly or think logically or decisively about something.: to confuse a person slightly by being difficult to understand.: to cause [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}