at one's wit's end
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Roget 704:
difficult,
not easy,
hard,
tough;
troublesome,
toilsome,
irksome;
operose†,
laborious,
onerous,
arduous,
Herculean,
formidable;
sooner said than done;
more easily said than done,
easier said than done.
difficult to deal with,
hard to deal with;
ill-conditioned,
crabbed,
crabby;
not to be handled with kid gloves,
not made with rose water.
awkward,
unwieldy,
unmanageable;
intractable,
stubborn
etc.
(obstinate)
606;
perverse,
refractory,
plaguy†,
trying,
thorny,
rugged;
knotted,
knotty;
invious†;
pathless,
trackless;
labyrinthine
etc.
(convoluted)
248;
intricate,
complicated
etc.
(tangled)
59;
impracticable
etc.
(impossible)
471;
not feasible
etc.
470;
desperate
etc.
(hopeless)
859.
embarrassing,
perplexing
etc.
(uncertain)
475;
delicate,
ticklish,
critical;
beset with difficulties,
full of difficulties,
surrounded by difficulties,
entangled by difficulties,
encompassed with difficulties.
under a difficulty;
in a box;
in difficulty,
in hot water,
in the suds,
in a cleft stick,
in a fix,
in the wrong box,
in a scrape
etc.
n.,
in deep water,
in a fine pickle;
in extremis;
between two stools,
between Scylla and Charybdis;
surrounded by shoals,
surrounded by breakers,
surrounded by quicksands;
at cross purposes;
not out of the wood.
reduced to straits;
hard pressed,
sorely pressed;
run hard;
pinched,
put to it,
straitened;
hard up,
hard put to it,
hard set;
put to one's shifts;
puzzled,
at a loss,
etc.
(uncertain)
475;
at the end of one's tether,
at the end of one's rope,
at one's wit's end,
at a nonplus,
at a standstill;
graveled,
nonplused,
nonplussed,
stranded,
aground;
stuck fast,
set fast;
up a tree,
at bay,
aux abois [Fr.],
driven into a corner,
driven from pillar to post,
driven to extremity,
driven to one's wit's end,
driven to the wall;
au bout de son Latin;
out of one's depth;
thrown out.
accomplished with difficulty;
hard-fought,
hard-earned.
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Roget 475:
uncertain;
casual;
random
etc.
(aimless)
621;
changeable
etc.
149.
doubtful,
dubious;
indecisive;
unsettled,
undecided,
undetermined;
in suspense,
open to discussion;
controvertible;
in question
etc.
(inquiry)
461.
vague;
indeterminate,
indefinite;
ambiguous,
equivocal;
undefined,
undefinable;
confused
etc.
(indistinct)
447;
mystic,
oracular;
dazed.
perplexing
etc.
v.;
enigmatic,
paradoxical,
apocryphal,
problematical,
hypothetical;
experimental
etc.
463.
unpredictable,
unforeseeable
(unknowable)
519.
fallible,
questionable,
precarious,
slippery,
ticklish,
debatable,
disputable;
unreliable,
untrustworthy.
contingent,
contingent on,
dependent on;
subject to;
dependent on circumstances;
occasional;
provisional.
unauthentic,
unauthenticated,
unauthoritative;
unascertained,
unconfirmed;
undemonstrated;
untold,
uncounted.
in a state of uncertainty,
in a cloud,
in a maze;
bushed,
off the track;
ignorant,
etc.
491;
afraid to say;
out of one's reckoning,
astray,
adrift;
at sea,
at fault,
at a loss,
at one's wit's end,
at a nonplus;
puzzled
etc.
v.;
lost,
abroad,
d_esorient_e;
distracted,
distraught.
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