Tom found the sheer size of the city bewildering at first.
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Bewildering
//bɪˈwɪldəɹɪŋ//
Synonyms for "bewildering" (92 found)
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32 translations across 15 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- μαυρός adj (very baffling, confusing, or perplexing)
- ᾰ̓́σκοπος adj (very baffling, confusing, or perplexing)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 撲朔迷離 /扑朔迷离 adj (very baffling, confusing, or perplexing)
- 迷人 adj (very baffling, confusing, or perplexing)
Czech
1 entries- matoucí adj (very baffling, confusing, or perplexing)
Dutch
4 entries- duizelingwekkend adj (very baffling, confusing, or perplexing)
- verbijsterend adj (very baffling, confusing, or perplexing)
- verbluffend adj (very baffling, confusing, or perplexing)
- verwarrend adj (very baffling, confusing, or perplexing)
Esperanto
1 entries- konfuzanta adj (very baffling, confusing, or perplexing)
Finnish
2 entries- häkellyttävä adj (very baffling, confusing, or perplexing)
- tyrmistyttävä adj (very baffling, confusing, or perplexing)
French
1 entries- abasourdissant adj (very baffling, confusing, or perplexing)
German
4 entries- befremdlich adj (very baffling, confusing, or perplexing)
- irreführend adj (very baffling, confusing, or perplexing)
- irremachend adj (very baffling, confusing, or perplexing)
- irritierend adj (very baffling, confusing, or perplexing)
Italian
1 entries- sconcertante adj (very baffling, confusing, or perplexing)
Macedonian
1 entries- избезумувачки adj (very baffling, confusing, or perplexing)
Polish
3 entries- oszałamiający adj (very baffling, confusing, or perplexing)
- zadziwiający adj (very baffling, confusing, or perplexing)
- zdumiewający adj (very baffling, confusing, or perplexing)
Sanskrit
1 entries- मोहन adj (very baffling, confusing, or perplexing)
Spanish
1 entries- desconcertante adj (very baffling, confusing, or perplexing)
Sranan Tongo
2 entries- bruya adj (very baffling, confusing, or perplexing)
- drai-ede adj (very baffling, confusing, or perplexing)
Turkish
3 entries- hayret verici adj (very baffling, confusing, or perplexing)
- sersemletici adj (very baffling, confusing, or perplexing)
- şaşırtıcı adj (very baffling, confusing, or perplexing)
Sample sentences
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I looked at the bewildering sight.
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On certain large planets, whose climates, owing to the proximity of a violent sun, were very much hotter than our tropics, we sometimes found an intelligent fish-like race. It was bewildering to us to discover that a submarine world could rise to mentality of human rank, and to that drama of the spirit, which we had now so often encountered.
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Man's sojourn on Venus lasted somewhat longer than his whole career on the Earth. From the days of Pithecanthropus to the final evacuation of his native planet he passed, as we have seen, through a bewildering diversity of form and circumstance. On Venus, though the human type was somewhat more constant biologically, it was scarcely less variegated in culture.
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