Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The condition of being confused or disoriented.
- n. A situation of perplexity or confusion; a tangle: a bewilderment of lies and half-truths.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being bewildered.
Wiktionary
- n. The state of being bewildered.
- n. A confusing or perplexing situation.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state of being bewildered.
- n. A bewildering tangle or confusion.
WordNet 3.0
- n. confusion resulting from failure to understand
Etymologies
- From bewilder + -ment. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In response to what he called the "bewilderment" of people watching the child sexual abuse scandal unfold at Penn State, Rep. Kerry Benninghoff said he plans to introduce legislation to make more information about state-related universities available to the public.”
“And how awful that poor Mary dies as she lived — stupidly, clumsily, in "bewilderment," running foolishly back and forth.”
“My guess is the rednecks are scratching their heads in bewilderment right now?”
“I wish I could come away with a reaction other than scratching my head in bewilderment, thinking Oh, that seems like a promising set-up .... oh.”
“The man shook his head in bewilderment and said he couldn't understand why girls would fantasize about a deformed psychopath, and I said, Don't you get it?”
“The presence we make known: As our group of robed, stoled and collaredmarchersweavedthroughthe financialdistrict, on more than one occasion I saw an expression of bewilderment in the eyes of observers.”
The Huffington Post: Bruce Reyes-Chow: Faith Leaders March And Pray For Occupy San Francisco
“Mark stares in bewilderment, wondering how this person was ever just “Jenny from the Block.””
“The people of SC must be just shaking their heads in bewilderment at each crazy turn of events.”
“And of course, they will sit and shake their heads in bewilderment as their base continues to shrink ..”
Think Progress » Cuccinelli: Homosexual ‘acts’ are a ‘detriment to our culture.’
“Kren runs through the hallmarks of zombie-pocalypse -- we watch as our hero listens to waning radio reports in bewilderment, abandons safety when food runs out, and crafts an ingenious getaway -- but unexpectedly foregrounds the protagonist's troubled romance.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘bewilderment’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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The stranger, the better.
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The Secret Garden
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Sound Sex
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thekatespanos's list
pomposity, gaggle, scintilla, lemming, bilk, vanquish, conflate, plenary, verisimilitude, perspicacious, rattletrap, obdurate and 325 more...
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Mimi
sober, rhetoric, oratory, ergo, venom, diaphragm, Medieval, piety, incognito, ruse, calamity, evidence and 251 more...
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Noesis
Mind or Mind Altering
example: psychotomimetic
( _mark, personal list, randomness )noetic, entheogen, psychonautics, infinite, bewilderment, mystification, stupefication, enhanced, altered, perception, simulation, network and 204 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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TamaraRose's Words
perspicacious, stygian, phantasmagoria, svengali, eloquent, azure, schadenfreude, curmudgeon, corvine, thaumaturgy, tranquility, tempestuous and 62 more...
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Korniko's Words
quixotic, existential, archaic, black, cheap, laser, jungle, tropical, listed, festive, survey, blind and 87 more...
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Duo3.0
aptitude, doctrine, lean on, renown, eminent, trail, perplexity, bewilderment, ardent, zealous, foyer, obstruct and 81 more...
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charliefinn's list
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faux, words, central, benevolent, swahili, sunderland, contempt, hangdog, algebra, crockery, confront, kasha and 33 more...
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