Meaning

Baffled, confused, mystified, at a loss, not thinking clearly, or uncertain..

Definitions by Sense

1. Baffled, confused, mystified, at a loss, not thinking clearly, or uncertain.
2. simple past and past participle of bewilder

Example Sentences

He was just standing there, turning this way and that, with a bewildered look on his face.

The Ways of Heav’n are dark and intricate, Puzzled in Mazes, and perplext with Errors; Our Underſtanding traces ’em in vain, Loſt and bewilder’d in the fruitleſs Search; […]

This shows their superiority over opium – cold, selfish, unsociable, mad, bewildered, soul-destroying opium.

The prime object in his view is the gratification of his relish for strong drink, united with that bewildered elevation of spirits, which he feels in the hour of intoxication.

Having got away the knives and lances of the men, who were bewildered and enraged with drink, she came stealthily into the cabin, feeling her way in the darkness, and hid them in the cracks and crevices of the logs.

There is perhaps a likeness in the whiteness of the moonlight to the shining clearness of snow ; at all events Janet thought very much, though in a bewildered, drink be-clouded way, of the night when Wee Amos was injured, and that early Sabbath morning when Maggie had fetched her to him through the snow.

It was a stodgy, weary display from Mourinho’s team with only sporadic moments when they threatened Salvatore Sirigu’s goal and their manager seemed bewildered afterwards when he tried to explain what had gone wrong.

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• more bewildered
• most bewildered

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