Synonyms of bewilders

bewilders

verb

present tense third-person singular of bewilder

as in perplexes

to throw into a state of mental uncertainty

the change in policy seems to have bewildered many of our customers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• perplexes
• confuses
• baffles
• puzzles
• befuddles
• embarrasses
• mystifies
• vexes
• bemuses
• confounds
• disorients
• flummoxes
• bothers
• discombobulates
• stuns
• disturbs
• flusters
• muddles
• rattles
• poses
• bamboozles
• upsets
• muddies
• unsettles
• addles
• fuddles
• mazes
• gets
• befogs
• foxes
• gravels
• beats
• buffaloes
• disconcerts
• dismays
• distresses
• discomfits
• mortifies
• agitates
• blows one's mind
• perturbs
• disquiets
• deceives
• unhinges
• misleads
• fazes
• sticks
• beguiles
• goes to one's head
• nonplusses
• stumps
• deludes
• nonpluses
• misguides
• fools
• weirds out
• discountenances
• tricks
• chagrins
• discomforts
• abashes
• hoodwinks
• discomposes
• snows
• strings along
• dupes
• humbugs
• cozens
• gulls
• hoaxes
• takes in

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• assures
• satisfies
• informs
• reassures
• enlightens

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of bewilders

The designs were puckish and gender-bending, evoking both awe and repulsion—the sort of clothing that titillates lovers of conceptual fashion and bewilders the uninitiated. —Ana Karina Zatarain, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025

Wedged in the far southeastern corner of the bottom of the continent, between South Africa and Mozambique, Eswatini is the last absolute monarchy in Africa, a status that bewilders modernizers and beguiles traditionalists. —The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 15 Aug. 2025