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View synonyms for bewildered

bewildered

[ bih-wil-derd ]

adjective

  1. completely puzzled or confused; perplexed.


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Other Words From

  • be·wildered·ly adverb
  • be·wildered·ness noun
  • unbe·wildered adjective
  • unbe·wildered·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of bewildered1

First recorded in 1675–85; bewilder + -ed 2

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Example Sentences

The experience left Shultz bewildered: “Maybe we are crazy?”

Bewildered adolescents, many of them accompanied by equally confused guardians, spill out into the hallway.

But the language about public schools and cricket bewildered audiences and Frank Rich gave it a stinking review.

Even President Obama seemed bewildered by the runaway program.

Five hours and loads of frustration later, the bewildered psychologist gave up.

She was so bewildered as to be more alive to the present distress of his condition than to the vague horrors downstairs.

As he fell a great blackness rose around him, and with it the bewildered clamour of awakened dogs.

He cast one bewildered glance into Dorothy's laughing, sympathetic face and, also, began to laugh aloud.

The charcoal drops, and the prisoner, passing his hand across his eyes, gazes bewildered at his own work.

Most girls of her age would have been enchanted and bewildered by this display of royal grandeur.

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