BEWILDERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bewildered mean? 

• BEWILDERED (adjective)
  The adjective BEWILDERED has 1 sense:

1. perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment

  Familiarity information: BEWILDERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEWILDERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment

Synonyms:

at sea; baffled; befuddled; bemused; bewildered; confounded; confused; lost; mazed; mixed-up

Context example:

she felt lost on the first day of school

Similar:

perplexed (full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment)

 Context examples 

Poor Mr. Brooke looked as if his lovely castle in the air was tumbling about his ears, for he had never seen Meg in such a mood before, and it rather bewildered him.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He backed away, bewildered and puzzled.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Yes, sir, I have, but the shock of this disgraceful exposure has bewildered me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“You look a little bewildered,” said he.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With the exception of the two mongrels, they were bewildered and spirit-broken by the strange savage environment in which they found themselves and by the ill treatment they had received.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

That she was frightened and bewildered, and that she was bravely striving to hide it, was quite plain to me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It bewildered her that she should desire to place her hands on that sunburned neck.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They were very long, very numerous, very hard—perfectly unintelligible, some of them, to me—and I was generally as much bewildered by them as I believe my poor mother was herself.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He seized the bewildered Summerlee by the arm, and they both ran towards us.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But he was on his feet again in a second and made another dash, now utterly bewildered, right under the nearest of the coming horses.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)