Bewildering

/bɪˈwɪldəɹɪŋ/ · adjective

Meaning

Very baffling, confusing, or perplexing, often due to a very large choice being available..

Definitions by Sense

1. Very baffling, confusing, or perplexing, often due to a very large choice being available.
2. gerund of bewilder: bewilderment.
3. present participle and gerund of bewilder

Example Sentences

There was a bewildering collection of curiosities filling the room.

—At once bewildering mists around him close, / And cold and hunger are the least of woes; / The Demon of the Snow, with angry roar / Descending, shuts for aye his prison door.

The two young Cratchits laughed tremendously at the idea of Peter's being a man of business; and Peter himself looked thoughtfully at the fire from between his collars, as if he were deliberating what particular investments he should favour when he came into the receipt of that bewildering income.

Can this be the Bird, to man so good, / Our consecrated Robin! / That, after their bewildering, / Did cover with leaves the little children, / So painfully in the wood?

Then the bewilderings of the comings and the goings of the coffins at the large and populous house; these bewilderings came over me. What was it to be dead? What is it to be living?

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• more bewildering
• most bewildering
• bewilderings

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