bewildering
Meanings
Plural: bewilderings
Verb
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- cause to be confused emotionally
- present participle and gerund of bewilder
Adj
- Very baffling, confusing, or perplexing, often due to a very large choice being available.
Noun
- gerund of bewilder: bewilderment.
Origin / Etymology
From bewilder (“to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone, especially with many different choices”) + -ing (suffix forming nouns or noun-like words from verbs, denoting the act of doing something, an action, or the embodiment of an action; and forming the present participles of verbs).
Synonyms
amaze, baffle, baffling, beat, befuddling, bemuse, bemusing, bewilder, bewildering, cattywampus, clear as mud, complicated, confounding, confusing, confuzzling, discombobulate, disordered, dizzying, dumbfound, flabbergasting, flummox, get, gravel, head-scratching, incomprehensible, inexplicable, insensible, jumbled, mind-boggling, mystify, mystifying, nonplus, nonplussing, perplex, perplexing, pose, puzzle, puzzlesome, puzzling, stick, stupefy, throw, unintelligible, uninterpretable, vague, vex
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 18
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