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Definition: Bewildered |
BewilderedAdjective1. Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment; "obviously bemused by his questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt lost on the first day of school". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bewildered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: BewilderedSynonyms: at sea (adj), baffled (adj), befuddled (adj), bemused (adj), confounded (adj), confused (adj), lost (adj), mazed (adj), mixed-up (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Imbecility Folly | Fatuous, idiotic, imbecile, driveling; blatant, babbling; vacant; sottish; bewildered;. |
Insanity | Corybantic, dithyrambic; rabid, giddy, vertiginous, wild; haggard, mazed; flighty; distracted, distraught; depressed; agitated, hyped up; bewildered; (uncertain). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bewildered |
| English words defined with "bewildered": bewilderedly, Bewilderedness ♦ confused ♦ Pixy-led ♦ To lose one's bearings ♦ Wilderment. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bewildered": GEOGRAPHER ♦ Mystery ♦ Paradise. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "bewildered": Bewilder. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'll have him completely bewildered by the time I'm finished. (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco) Betrayed, bewildered wrong response? (The Birdcage; writing credit: Jean Poiret; Francis Veber) | |
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 | Blither; blithering; idiot; idiotic; incomprehensible; insane; institutionalized; crazy; crazed; out of your mind; out of his mind; out of my mind; mentally ill; aberrant; bewildered; confused; crazed; delirious; demented; deranged; deviant; deviate; ding. |
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Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | Mein Herr looked so thoroughly bewildered that I thought it best to change the subject. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | On the evening of this same day, the worthy old woman was sitting in her lodge, still quite bewildered and sunk in sad reflections. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | I am alone and I am bewildered. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside. Habeam, geographer of wide reknown, Native of Abu-Keber's ancient town, In passing thence along the river Zam To the adjacent village of Xelam, Bewildered by the multitude of roads, Got lost, lived long on migratory toads, Then from exposure miserably died, And grateful travelers bewailed their guide. Henry Haukhorn |
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| "Bewildered" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 85.16% of the time. "Bewildered" is used about 465 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 85.16% | 396 | 14,082 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 8.6% | 40 | 54,274 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 5.38% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.86% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 465 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "bewildered": be bewildered ♦ i am bewildered. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "bewildered": bewildered-puppy. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bewildered bewitched bothered | 12 |
bewildered bewitched bothered lyrics | 8 |
bewildered | 7 |
bewildered bewitched bothered ella fitzgerald lyrics | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "bewildered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i hutuar (abashed, absent, absentminded, confused, disconcerted, distracted, dizzy, foggy, inadvertent, muddle-headed, perplexed, puzzle-headed, puzzle-pated, vague). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متحير (confounded, confused, discomfited, distracted, embarrassed, nonplused, perplexed, puzzled), مرتبك (agitated, baffled, bemused, confounded, confused, discomfited, disconcerted, disquieted, disturbed, embarrassed, lummox, perplexed, perturbed, puzzled, uneasy, upset). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 迷惑 (Bewilder, Bewildering, Bewilderingly, Confound, Confounded, Confounding, Enchant, Enchanted, Enchanting, Mystify, Obfuscation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zmatený (addle-brained, addle-pated, bemused, chaotic, confused, disordered, embroiled, in confusion, mazy, mixed, muddy, screwed up, turbid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ymmälle (confused, perplexed), ymmällä (confused, perplexed, taken aback). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | effarée, effaré, effarâmes, effarèrent, effara. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verwirrte (baffled, bemused, deranged, disarranged, disconcerted, distracted, dizzyingly, embarrassed, flustered, muddled, perplexed), fassungslos (abashed, aghast, stunned). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σαστίζω (confuse, discomfit, feel bewildered, flummox, mystify, nonplus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תמ" (amazed, astonished, surprised), בוך (bemused, confused, embarrassed, foxed, hot under the collar, ill at ease, in a stew, perplexed, perturbed, self conscious, sheepish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zavart (abashed, be disconcerted, disturbed, embarrassed, flustered, nonplussed, perplexed, puzzled, self-conscious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | terseok (confused, unsteady because top heavy), limbung (dry dock, fenced-in bathing place, inner harbor, unsteady because top heavy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sfasato (confused, out of phase), sconcertato (abashed, baffled, confounded), perplesso (confused, distracted, distraught, helpless, perplexed, puzzled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "里霧中 (all at sea, be in a maze, be totally at a loss, in a fog, lose one's bearings, mystified, up in the air). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "りむちゅう (all at sea, be in a maze, be totally at a loss, in a fog, lose one's bearings, mystified, up in the air). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 어리둥 하게 하" (Bewildering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | er shaghryn (adrift, astray, betrayed, deviating, erring, erroneous, lost, stray). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ewilderedbay aturdido (deafened, muzzy, stunned). (various references) nãuc (blockhead, crazy, dumbfounded, dunderhead, flurried, foolish, giddy, silly), dezorientat (perplexed), confuz (abashed, addle, blurred, chaotic, confused, crabbed, dim, embarrassed, faint, gloomily, hazy, hugger mugger, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, stodgy, turbid, vague, washy, wrongheaded), ameţit (confounded, dizzy, flustered, giddy, groggy, inebriate, intoxicated, moony, muzzy, queer, screwed, silly, squiffy, stupid, tipsy, wild), învãlmãşit (confused, irregular). (various references) ставить в тупик/ озадаченный. (various references) zbunjen (abashed, ablush, aghast, befuddled, confounded, confused, distraught, embarrassed, loss: at a loss, nonplussed, puzzled, quizzical), unezveren (haggard). (various references) perplejo (at a loss, befuddled, bemused, bushed, confounded, leak, perplexed, puzzled), elementado (silly), desconcertado (abashed, astounds, confused, disconcerted, embarrassed, hot under the collar, perplexed, stumps, taken aback), aturrullado (distraught, perplexed), aturdido (abashed, confound, confused, dopey, dopy, flurried, fuddled, headless, numbs, stunned, stunning, torpid). (various references) งุนงงอย่างที่สุ". (various references) sersemlemiş (bemused, dizzy, fuddled, giddy, light in the head, light-headed, punch-drunk, slaphappy), şaşkına dönmüş (baffled, confused, flabbergasted, shocked), şaşkın (addle-brained, addled, addle-headed, addle-pated, all abroad, at an end, bemused, bepuzzle, confused, consternated, dizzy, dumbfounded, gaping, happy, open-eyed, pixilated, puzzled, puzzle-headed, sheepish, slaphappy, taken aback, thunderstruck, twisted, wide-eyed, wondering), şaşırmış (all at sea, all out, amazed, at a loss, baffled, blank, confounded, confused, disoriented, distracted, lost, perplexed, punch-drunk, puzzled, surprised, taken aback, twisted, wondering). (various references) збентежений (abashed, confused, disconcerted, distraught, ill at ease, puddled). (various references) ffwndrus (confused). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bewildered": bewilderedly, bewilderedness, bewilderednesses. (additional references) | |
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"Bewildered" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bewilderd, bewildred, boilered. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bewildered" (pronounced buwi"lderd) |
| 4 | -l d er d | shouldered. |
| 3 | -d er d | blundered, bordered, considered, disordered, embroidered, engendered, floundered, foundered, gerrymandered, hindered, laundered, meandered, murdered, nonstandard, ordered, pandered, plundered, pondered, powdered, reconsidered, rendered, shuddered, slandered, squandered, standard, substandard, surrendered, tendered, thundered, unhindered, wandered, wondered. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-d-e-e-e-i-l-r-w" | |
-2 letters: bewilder, rewelded, wildered. | |
-3 letters: bedewed, bielded, bleeder, bridled, debride, deedier, dreidel, wedeled, weedier, wielded, wielder. | |
-4 letters: bedder, bedrid, belied, belier, bidder, birded, birled, brewed, bridle, deride, dewier, dirled, dreidl, edible, eelier, elided, leered, lewder, lieder, reddle, reeded, reeled, relied, reweld, riddle, wedder, weeded, weeder, welded, welder, widder, widdle, wilder. | |
-5 letters: bedel, bedew, belie, bided. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-d-e-e-e-i-l-r-w" | |
+2 letters: bewilderedly. | |
+4 letters: bewilderedness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 77 69 6C 64 65 72 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . .--. .. .-.. -.. . .-. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01110111 01101001 01101100 01100100 01100101 01110010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e w i l d e r e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0077 0069 006C 0064 0065 0072 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36718975787071847170 |
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