bewilders
Leaves completely mystified
Bewilders is the third-person singular of bewilder, meaning to confuse or perplex deeply.
Something bewilders when it leaves you unable to understand or respond: The complexity of the tax code bewilders most people.
What bewilders doesn't just puzzle—it disorients, leaving you uncertain how to proceed.
Problems designed to challenge
- perplexesCauses mental confusion
- stumpsCut tree bases
- flummoxesThoroughly confuses someone
- befuddlesCauses mental confusion
confounds · dumbfounds · muddles · fogs · clouds · obscures · blurs · discombobulates
Puzzling and obscure
- crypticObscure in meaning
- inscrutableImpossible to understand
- unfathomableBeyond comprehension or measurement
- inexplicableCannot be accounted for
perplexing · mysterious · puzzling · baffling · incomprehensible · impenetrable · arcane · esoteric
Puzzle of passages
- lostUnable to navigate
- astrayOff the right path
- adriftFloating without control
- unsettledNot yet resolved
displaced · aimless · wandering · floundering · unmoored · dislocated · off-balance · spun
puzzles
Problems designed to challenge
befuddles · confounds · dumbfounds · muddles · fogs · clouds · obscures · blurs · discombobulates · bamboozles
enigmatic
Puzzling and obscure
- crypticObscure in meaning
- inscrutableImpossible to understand
- unfathomableBeyond comprehension or measurement
inexplicable · perplexing · mysterious · puzzling · baffling · incomprehensible · impenetrable · arcane · esoteric · sphinx-like
maze
Puzzle of passages
unsettled · displaced · aimless · wandering · floundering · unmoored · dislocated · off-balance · spun · directionless
- stunsamazes, astounds, dumbfounds, stuns, shocks
bewildersclarifies
Makes more understandable
enlightens · illuminates · orients · explains · elucidates
bewildersexplains
Makes something understandable
elucidates · demystifies · simplifies · clears up · spells out