Tom's paintings were so chaotic and abstract that they tended to bewilder viewers.
Source: tatoeba (5267358)
Bewilder
//bɪˈwɪldə(ɹ)//
Synonyms for "bewilder" (138 found)
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1 entriesderived
6 entriesderived from
1 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
4 entriesTranslations
56 translations across 22 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- يُحيّر verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- يُربك verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- karıxdırmaq verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
Bulgarian
3 entries- обърквам verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- озадачавам verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- смущавам verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
Czech
2 entries- dezorientovat verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- zmást verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
Finnish
4 entries- eksyttää verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- harhauttaa verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- hämmentää verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- sekoittaa verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
French
4 entries- abasourdir verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- confondre verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- déconcerter verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- dérouter verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
German
2 entries- durcheinanderbringen verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- verwirren verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
Greek
3 entries- ζαλίζω verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- μπερδεύω verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- σαστίζω verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
Hungarian
1 entries- zavarba hoz verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
Ido
1 entries- konfuzeskar verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
Interlingua
2 entries- confuser verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- inbrolliar verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
Italian
4 entries- confondere verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- disorientare verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- disorientare verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- sconcertare verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
Macedonian
1 entries- збу́ни verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
Norwegian
1 entries- forvirre verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
Polish
4 entries- konsternować verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- oszałamiać verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- oszołomić verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- skonsternować verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
Portuguese
3 entries- confundir verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- desconcertar verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- desorientar verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
Romanian
1 entries- dezorienta verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
Russian
4 entries- приводи́ть в замеша́тельство verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- сбива́ть с толку verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- смуща́ть verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- ста́вить в тупик verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- dezorijentírati verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- smȅsti verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- zbúniti verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
Slovak
3 entries- dezorientovať verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- pomotať verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- zmiasť verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
Spanish
3 entries- confundir verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- desconcertar verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
- pasmar verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
Swedish
1 entries- förbrylla verb (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
Dialects of English spoken in one country often bewilder speakers of English from another.
Source: tatoeba (5267359)
At the base of the rock, several ancient dwellings were built, and other features that still bewilder the nation’s leading scholars of indigenous people.
Source: tatoeba (12053002)
All the different possible options may bewilder us.
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.