What is another word for bewilder?

Pronunciation: [bɪwˈɪldə] (IPA)

Bewilder can be defined as a confusing or perplexing situation or feeling of being lost. There are several synonyms available for the word "bewilder". One synonym is "confuse" which means to puzzle or perplex someone. Another synonym is "baffle" which means to cause someone to be completely puzzled or unsettled. "Flummox" is another synonym which means to confuse or bewildered someone in a surprise way. "Puzzle" is another synonym which means to cause someone difficulty in understanding or finding a solution to something. Finally, "perplex" means to confuse or disturb someone by something strange or difficult to understand. There are plenty of synonyms available for the word "bewilder" depending on the context and situation.

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What are the hypernyms for Bewilder?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for bewilder?

The word "bewilder" implies a sense of confusion, disorientation or perplexity. The antonyms for the word "bewilder" are words that imply clarity, organization, understanding, and comprehension. Some antonyms for 'bewilder' are organized, systematized, orderly, enlightened, explicate, familiarize, instruct, guide, clarify. When we use antonyms, we can better understand the nuances and meanings of words. Antonyms for "bewilder" help to identify the opposite of confusion, making it more comfortable for people to understand and relate to. By contrasting "bewilder" with its antonyms, you can gain a better sense of what it means to be baffled versus knowledgeable.

What are the antonyms for Bewilder?

Usage examples for Bewilder

For a few days Lady Fanny seems to have felt that the matter was irrevocably settled: "The more I think of what has happened, the more I bewilder myself-I therefore do not think at all."
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond
From this feeling of social responsibility some years ago I approached the hysterical trickster, Madame Palladino, who had so much inflamed the mystical imagination of the country, and from this interest in the social aspect I undertook again recently a research into the mental powers of Beulah Miller, who was well on the way to bewilder the whole nation and thus to stir up the always latent mystic inclinations of the community.
"Psychology and Social Sanity"
Hugo Münsterberg
Just as on a clear night, when we look up into the starlit sky, it would bewilder us to try and remember all the stars, so we learn first to know those that are most easily recognised-the Plough, or the Great Bear, as they shine with a clear steady light against the background of a thousand lesser stars.
"Knights of Art Stories of the Italian Painters"
Amy Steedman

Famous quotes with Bewilder

  • Take myself as a good-will ambassador. I'm great — I'm taking myself as a character — for the intellectuals and the man on the street. I'm great where Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. leaves off. I'm not so good with high society, in either North or South America, because I'm highly unconventional. Perhaps I bewilder people by being at once the esthete, the intellectual and the vulgarian.
    Orson Welles
  • Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder, Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives being embarrassed by our parents and the last part being embarrassed by our childer.
    Ogden Nash
  • By the glare of false science betray’d, That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind.
    James Beattie

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