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widemouthed

adjective

Definition of widemouthednext
as in bewildered

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Recent Examples of widemouthed With a fairly small amount of surface area, the drink keeps its carbonation longer than wide-mouthed glasses. — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 May 2026 Check out the wide-mouthed scream unleashed by the Lakers’ Luke Kennard midway through the fourth quarter. — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026 Silicone styles like the ones from Loulou Lollipop do a standup job of catching rogue crumbs and food in their wide-mouthed pouches. — Pamela Brill, Parents, 7 Apr. 2026 Gently add gravel to a shallow, clear dish or wide-mouthed canning jar. — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 13 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for widemouthed
  1. bewildered
  2. dazed
  3. awesome
  4. awed
  5. wide-eyed
  6. open-mouthed
  7. overwhelmed
  8. aghast
Adjective
  • Five o’clock Saturday, the Riverside Stadium and Middlesbrough head coach Kim Hellberg is fist-pumping a half-bewildered but fully enthused home crowd.
    — Michael Walker, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
  • When kids first got online, parents were bewildered and alarmed, but kids, who tend to gravitate to new technology, found freedom in a space that was basically ungoverned.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of bewildered
Adjective
  • Laiken Randolph appeared dazed, and possibly on drugs, officers remarked.
    — Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Hsu maps a Los Angeles of leftovers and castoffs; portraits of friends and strangers in the street are full of dazed, inscrutable expressions.
    — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of dazed
Adjective
  • San Francisco quarterback Brock Purdy looked awesome, and its defense looked even better.
    — Chris Branch, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • For our two main characters, their version of hell is kind of awesome in some ways.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of awesome
Adjective
  • Maxwell, a fiction editor at The New Yorker, drew upon his own awed discovery of France in 1948; the novel’s opening paragraphs show one of the protagonists weeping at the sight of the French shore.
    — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026
  • But credit Neill for both understanding the assignment and not quite settling for those awed stares of Spielbergian wonder.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2026
Definition of awed
Adjective
  • Indeed, Infiniti’s wide-eyed portrait of a prodigy is equal parts inspired and frustrating.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Thomasin McKenzie plays a young woman, Alyce, steeped in her own trauma and loss, who attaches herself to the ploughman, and her ability to express wide-eyed, barely contained hysteria and fear is unmatched.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of wide-eyed
Adjective
  • Miley Cyrus, open-mouthed, nudged Kerry Washington as the woman in spangles swept by—this was red-carpet clothing, flashbulb clothing, clothing to be seen in once rather than excavated annually from a closet of perennials.
    — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
  • The thought of coworkers open-mouthed laughing is enough to jar anyone awake.
    — Alexandra Hildreth, Vogue, 24 July 2026
Definition of open-mouthed
Adjective
  • Charitable agencies are being overwhelmed with pleas for alms because there is too much real wealth in the country.
    — J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Low inoculation rates mixed with undernutrition, overcrowding in urban areas and an overwhelmed health care system.
    — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of overwhelmed
Adjective
  • At first Burgomeister is aghast at such a horrific proposal and rebuffs her offer.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Albert Einstein was aghast at how nuclear fission had been put to first use.
    — Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of aghast

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“Widemouthed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/widemouthed. Accessed 24 Sep. 2026.

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