WIDEMOUTHED Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

widemouthed

adjective

Definition of widemouthed

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

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

So these are the scheduling quirks that come with our awesome move to nine games that has sure looked so great here lately.

— Mark Harris OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026
This book is full of hilarious moments, a ridiculously awesome entropy sweeper, and friendship in somewhat odd circumstances.

— Kavya Dhillon, Parents, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of awesome

Adjective

This audience listened in awed silence, and by the end of the song, everyone around us was crying as well, before jolting upward in a spontaneous standing ovation — one of three.

— James Gunn, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of awed

Adjective

Jacob Tremblay portrays Kaczynski as a wide-eyed, vulnerable teenager who wants to prove himself so badly.

— Rachel Corbett, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2026
Not my friends, who shook their heads at my schedule, wide-eyed and overwhelmed at the thought of doing it themselves.

— Taylor Tomlinson, HollywoodReporter, 24 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

Perez’s mom has been incredibly touched and honestly overwhelmed by everyone’s generosity.

— Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2026
In the Hugging Face attack, AI agents escaped a testing environment supposedly sealed off from the internet, collaborated using a secret message board and overwhelmed Hugging Face's digital defenses.

— Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026

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