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adjective
- 1. perplexed and confused; very puzzled: "he saw the bewildered look on my face"
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The meaning of BEWILDERED is deeply or utterly confused or perplexed. How to use bewildered in a sentence.
adjective. uk / bɪˈwɪl.dəd / us / bɪˈwɪl.dɚd / Add to word list. confused and uncertain: Arriving in a strange city at night, I felt alone and bewildered. I came out of the movie a bit bewildered, but I enjoyed it. See. bewilder. Fewer examples. Everyone seemed utterly bewildered.
1. : to cause to lose one's bearings (see bearing sense 6c) bewildered by the city's maze of roads. 2. : to perplex or confuse especially by a complexity, variety, or multitude of objects or considerations. His decision bewildered her. utterly bewildered by the instructions. bewilderedly adverb. bewilderedness noun.
If you're bewildered, you are confused on a whole new level. You may even find your confusion confusing. Great synonyms for this word include at sea, bemused, confounded, and mixed-up.
Bewildered definition: completely puzzled or confused; perplexed.. See examples of BEWILDERED used in a sentence.
To bewilder is to amaze, baffle, dumbfound, flummox, perplex, or stupefy. When you bewilder people, you confuse them. Bewilder is a fun-sounding word for confusion-causing. A complicated math problem will bewilder many students. A magician's tricks should bewilder the audience.
verb [ T ] uk / bɪˈwɪl.də r/ us / bɪˈwɪl.dɚ / Add to word list. to confuse someone: The instructions completely bewildered me. Synonyms. bemuse. flummox informal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Puzzle and confuse. addle. baffle. bedazzle. befuddle. bemuse. cloud. discombobulate. disorientate. do someone's head in idiom. flummox. fox.
verb (used with object) to confuse or puzzle completely; perplex: These shifting attitudes bewilder me. Synonyms: muddle, stagger, confound, daze, confuse, nonplus, mystify. bewilder. / bɪˈwɪldə / verb. to confuse utterly; puzzle. archaic. to cause to become lost. Discover More. Derived Forms. beˈwilderˌment, noun. Discover More.
1. bewildered - perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment; "obviously bemused by his questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt lost on the first day of school".
If you are bewildered, you are very confused and cannot understand something or decide what you should do.
