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What is another word for bewildering?

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Adjective

Very confusing, perplexing, or baffling

Startling, surprising or shocking in an unexpected way

Having an unusually strange character or behavior

Tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm

Causing a feeling of surprise, fear or dismay

Tending to make one (actually or metaphorically) dizzy or confused

That captures

Having a meaning that is open to several interpretations

Causing of amazement

Present participle for to throw into a state of confusion or uncertainty

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Very confusing, perplexing, or baffling

difficult to understand

impossible to understand

inextricable

unexplained

full of twists and turns

too hard to understand

all Greek to you

double Dutch

too difficult to understand

ravelled^UK

raveled^US

laboured^UK

skillful^US

labored^US

skilful^UK

not easily understood

impossible to separate

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“This side of glory we are left to wrestle, at times, with quite bewildering providences.”

Adjective

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Startling, surprising or shocking in an unexpected way

marvellous^UK

marvelous^US

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Adjective

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Having an unusually strange character or behavior

marvelous^US

stupidly irresponsible

marvellous^UK

beyond the bounds of possibility

no-way

beyond you

not a prayer

not worth considering

beyond one

hundred-to-one

contrary to reason

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Adjective

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Tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm

unfavorable^US

agonising^UK

sombre^UK

somber^US

agonizing^US

bedevilling^UK

bedeviling^US

enough to try the patience of a saint

enough to drive you up the wall

dishonoring^US

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Adjective

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Causing a feeling of surprise, fear or dismay

unsavoury^UK

unsavory^US

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Adjective

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Tending to make one (actually or metaphorically) dizzy or confused

Adjective

That captures

phony^US

phoney^UK

economical with the truth

colored^US

coloured^UK

terminologically inexact

not backed up by evidence

uncalled-for

mechanical

not what it is cracked up to be

wannabe

as it were

would-be

to all intents and purposes

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Having a meaning that is open to several interpretations

vague

imprecise

loose

generalised^UK

generalized^US

wooly^US

woolly^UK

blurred round the edges

not literal

not strict

not close

on the back of an envelope

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Causing of amazement

Verb

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Present participle for to throw into a state of confusion or uncertainty

setting someone thinking

balling up

blowing your mind

messing with one's head

going to your head

making someone scratch their head

causing to be at a stand

making your head spin

“What a sesquipedalian terminology it is with which they bewilder the lay mind and overpower the student!”

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