Synonyms for bewildered
be·wil·dered

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1. baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at seaadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   scattered, befuddled, helpless, lost(p), mixed-up, disoriented, woolly, bemused, deep in thought(p), disjointed, disordered, preoccupied, at sea, illogical, woolly-headed, missed, confused, disconnected, unconnected, addled, muddled, baffled, upset, lost, befogged, confounded, muzzy, wooly-minded, broken, wooly, garbled, mazed

   Antonyms:
   unperplexed

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1. bewilderedadjective

   Synonyms:
   perplexed, confused, mystified, nonplused, obfuscated

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1. List of paraphrases for "bewildered":

   perplexed, puzzled, confused, baffled, stumped

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How to use bewildered in a sentence?

1. Bill Clinton:

   We just walked out of the White House followed by some bewildered secret service agents and made our way to church, and from that moment to this we have always felt so welcome.

2. D. H. Lawrence:

   We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

3. Jeff Rapoch:

   I got a phone call from my friend Eddie saying, ‘Hey, I found your wife. You need to get here right now, she was in the middle of the path and her bike was on one side… she was sort of sitting up and looking around really kind of bewildered.

4. Joel Patrick Warneke:

   At points of clarity, I realize that my life on earth is meaningless, and that I am merely a pawn in a bigger game. A game I cannot possible understand or have control of. Thankfully, before depression sets in, I drift back into my cloudy, bewildered daily routine.

5. Nathaniel Hawthorne:

   No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.