Word Meanings - BEWILDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly. Lost and bewildered in the fruitless search. Addison. Syn. -- To perplex; puzzle; entangle; confuse; confound;

Additional info about word: BEWILDER

To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly. Lost and bewildered in the fruitless search. Addison. Syn. -- To perplex; puzzle; entangle; confuse; confound; mystify; embarrass; lead astray.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BEWILDER)

• Abash
• Confound
• confuse
• discompose
• bewilder
• daunt
• cow
• humble
• disconcert
• dishearten
• motility
• shame
• humiliate
• Dazzle
• Daze
• Distract
• Divide
• dissipate
• dissever
• perplex
• convulse
• madden
• disturb
• Perplex
• Embarrass
• puzzle
• entangle
• involve
• encumber
• complicate
• mystify
• harass
• Pose
• Puzzle
• dumbfounder
• embarrass
• daze
• confound

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BEWILDER)

• Enlighten
• instruct
• illumine

Related words: (words related to BEWILDER)

• PUZZLEMENT
  The state of being puzzled; perplexity. Miss Mitford.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• PUZZLE
  1. Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making. 2. The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle.
• SHAMEFAST
  Modest; shamefaced. -- Shame"fast*ly, adv. -- Shame"fast*ness, n. See Shamefaced. Shamefast she was in maiden shamefastness. Chaucer. is a blushing shamefast spirit. Shak. Modest apparel with shamefastness. 1 Tim. ii. 9 .
• DIVIDER
  An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters.
• DIVIDEND
  A number or quantity which is to be divided. (more info) 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated
• DISSEVER
  To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse. The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney. States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster. (more info)
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• PUZZLEDOM
  The domain of puzzles; puzzles, collectively. C. Kingsley.
• INSTRUCTRESS
  A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
• HARASS
  To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out. harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature
• DAUNTER
  One who daunts.
• ILLUMINER
  One who, or that which, illuminates.
• DISHEARTENMENT
  Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.
• DISTRACTION
  1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in
• DAZZLEMENT
  Dazzling flash, glare, or burst of light. Donne.
• DISTRACTED
  Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad. My distracted mind. Pope.
• ABASHMENT
  The state of being abashed; confusion from shame.
• PERPLEX
  1. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts. No artful wildness to perplex the scene. Pope. What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our
• HUMBLE
  humilis on the ground, low, fr. humus the earth, ground. See Homage, 1. Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage. THy humble nest built on the ground. Cowley. 2. Thinking
• UNPERPLEX
  To free from perplexity. Donne.
• PREINSTRUCT
  To instruct previously or beforehand. Dr. H. More.
• BEDAZZLE
  To dazzle or make dim by a strong light. "Bedazzled with the sun." Shak.
• CALABASH
  Calebasse), lit., a dry gourd, fr. Ar. qar', fem., a kind of gourd + 1. The common gourd . 2. The fruit of the calabash tree. 3. A water dipper, bottle, backet, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd. Calabash tree.
• UNDAUNTABLE
  Incapable of being daunted; intrepid; fearless; indomitable. Bp. Hall.
• SQUABASH
  To crush; to quash; to squash. Sir W. Scott.
• THUMBLESS
  Without a thumb. Darwin.