Bewildering

Quick meaning: Bewildering is an adjective meaning Very baffling, confusing, or perplexing, often due to a very large choice being available.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. gerund of bewilder: bewilderment.
2. present participle and gerund of bewilder

Example Sentences

There was a bewildering collection of curiosities filling the room.

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?

—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.

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?

Word Forms

• bewilderings

Synonyms for bewildering

Depending on context, synonyms include dizzying, head-scratching, mind-boggling, puzzlesome, baffling, bemusing.

Antonyms for bewildering

Common opposites include unbewildering.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unclear, baffling, confounding, confusing, disconcerting, troubling.

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