bewilder
Leave someone baffled
To bewilder is to confuse thoroughly, leaving someone disoriented or at a loss.
A bewildering situation offers too many options, contradictions, or unfamiliar elements to process easily: The sheer variety of choices bewildered her.
Unlike simple confusion, bewilderment suggests being lost—unable to find your bearings amid complexity or strangeness.
Challenge testing ingenuity
- baffleConfuse or perplex
- perplexCause utter confusion
- mystifyConfuse beyond understanding
- befuddleTo thoroughly confuse
flummox · nonplus · stump · addle · muddle · dumbfound · discombobulate · confound
Intricate passage network
- mazePuzzle of passages
- puzzleChallenge testing ingenuity
- tangleTwisted mass of strands
- webInterwoven filament structure
intricacy · convolution · knot · warren · enigma · riddle · conundrum · quagmire
Unable to navigate
- dizzySensation of spinning
- disorientedLacking sense of direction
- unsteadyLacking balance or stability
- adriftFloating without control
astray · spinning · reeling · unmoored · disconcerted · flustered · unsettled · off-balance
puzzle
Challenge testing ingenuity
befuddle · flummox · nonplus · stump · addle · muddle · dumbfound · discombobulate · confound · bemuse
labyrinth
Intricate passage network
web · intricacy · convolution · knot · warren · enigma · riddle · conundrum · quagmire · morass
lost
Unable to navigate
- dizzySensation of spinning
- disorientedLacking sense of direction
- unsteadyLacking balance or stability
adrift · astray · spinning · reeling · unmoored · disconcerted · flustered · unsettled · off-balance · turned around
- mind gamesmind game, head game, head games, mind games, intimidation
- mix-upsmix-up, mistake, error, confusion, mix
- stunstun, daze, shock, stupefy, stagger
bewildered, bewilderment, bewildering, bewilders, bewilderingly