bewildering
adjEtymology
From bewilder (“to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone, especially with many different choices”) + -ing (suffix forming nouns or noun-like words from verbs, denoting the act of doing something, an action, or the embodiment of an action; and forming the present participles of verbs).
Definitions
Very baffling, confusing, or perplexing, often due to a very large choice being available.
- There was a bewildering collection of curiosities filling the room.
- —At once bewildering mists around him close, / And cold and hunger are the least of woes; / The Demon of the Snow, with angry roar / Descending, shuts for aye his prison door.
gerund of bewilder
gerund of bewilder: bewilderment.
- Can this be the Bird, to man so good, / Our consecrated Robin! / That, after their bewildering, / Did cover with leaves the little children, / So painfully in the wood?
- Then the bewilderings of the comings and the goings of the coffins at the large and populous house; these bewilderings came over me. What was it to be dead? What is it to be living?
present participle and gerund of bewilder
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at bewildering. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at bewildering. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at bewildering
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA