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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bewildering
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bewildering variety (=so many that you feel confused)
▪ There is a bewildering variety of roses to choose from.
bewildering array
▪ a bewildering array of options
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
array
▪ In the interim we will be faced with a bewildering array of options.
▪ There appears to be a bewildering array of choices of software and hardware.
▪ The big essential oil suppliers stock a bewildering array of essences.
▪ The entire vehicle was festooned with a bewildering array of kit.
▪ There is a bewildering array of environmental and wildlife holidays to choose from.
▪ Besides, the forms of the incentives themselves come in a bewildering array.
▪ The multiple debtor can face a bewildering array of different creditors using different courts, different procedures and different threats.
variety
▪ Red Jungle Fowl are the progenitors of the bewildering variety of domestic fowl.
▪ Currently there is a bewildering variety of software available and my first task will be to suggest a simple classification.
▪ Clay minerals occur in a bewildering variety of forms; only the major groups are listed in Table 6.3.
▪ But supporting a bewildering variety of good causes is typical of the famous in the late-80s.
▪ During the subsequent centuries, those teachings would surface under a bewildering variety of names.
▪ Even under the microscope, it is hard to detect any structure, because of the bewildering variety of nerve fibres criss-crossing one another.
▪ It is read by different readers in a bewildering variety of ways, as reviews and readers' letters attest.
▪ The different dimensions of conflict overlap and interact in a sometimes bewildering variety of ways.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Changes in society are happening so fast, they sometimes seem bewildering.
▪ There was a bewildering variety of styles to choose from.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Currently there is a bewildering variety of software available and my first task will be to suggest a simple classification.
▪ In the interim we will be faced with a bewildering array of options.
▪ Red Jungle Fowl are the progenitors of the bewildering variety of domestic fowl.
▪ Some of the bewildering range of ventures succeeded.
▪ The array is bewildering and the effect is numbing.
▪ We had, to the uninitiated, a bewildering assortment of electric sockets throughout the house.
▪ You are angry, vulnerable, gentle, fierce, with such bewildering speed that I find it fascinating.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bewildering

Bewilder \Be*wil"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bewildered; p. pr. & vb. n. Bewildering.] [Pref. be- + wilder.] To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for lack of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly.

Lost and bewildered in the fruitless search.
--Addison.

Syn: To perplex; puzzle; entangle; confuse; confound; mystify; embarrass; lead astray.

Bewildering

Bewildering \Be*wil"der*ing\, a. Causing bewilderment or great perplexity; as, bewildering difficulties. -- Be*wil"der*ing*ly, adv.

Wiktionary
bewildering

  1. Very confusing, perplexing, or baffling, often due to a very large choice being available. n. bewilderment v

  2. (present participle of bewilder English)

WordNet
bewildering

adj. causing bafflement; "the play was at the same time a bewildering and an exciting experience"

Usage examples of "bewildering".

It has been my experience, faced with a bewildering perplexity of information, that sleep is an excellent remedy for confusion.

The balance of the frightful herd was now circling rapidly and with bewildering speed about the little knot of victims.

The more I thought of it the more excited I became, until my fingers raced madly back and forth over those bewildering little hills and valleys upon that bit of paper.

As the evening deepened the quaintest noises began on every hand--noises so strange and bewildering that as I cowered down with my teeth chattering, and stared hard into the impenetrable, they could be likened to nothing but the crying of all the souls of dead things since the beginning.

It was an elusive vision--a moment of bewildering darkness, and then, in a flash like daylight, the red masses of the Orphanage near the crest of the hill, the green tops of the pine trees, and this problematical object came out clear and sharp and bright.

There was everywhere a bewildering mass of fruit blossom--apple, plum, pear, cherry.

For a while his mind left the bewildering cascade of events that had occurred since the day Tirilen had led him down the steep road from the Castle to look at the strange tinker on the village green.

How alone in this bewildering, alien place with your terrible knowledge and your deep fears?

At that bewildering and horrifying time, this was what I needed more than anything and I shall never forget he gave it to me.

For after-hours amusement he engaged in bewildering corrosive strife with the woman he supposedly loved.

She turned toward him and he saw a look in her eyes that was bewildering in its complexity: expectable things like sorrow and compassion, and behind that what appeared to be a soft gleam of pure love, and behind thatwhat?

That she was alive after being twice captured was bewildering, but that she was alive after facing the Gevethen themselves was almost numbing.

Isgyrn, though the latter, now that he was whole again, seemed to be accepting this further inexplicable and bewildering change in his circumstances with remarkable equanimity.

The moving, intangible shapes and lights returned to pursue their own mysterious, bewildering paths, the sounds became again the rising and falling of a senseless chorus.

Ibryen approached the Gevethen, the mirror-bearers began to weave about him but he ignored the bewildering images that they made.