Usually means: Confusing or perplexing to understand.
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  1. bewildering: Merriam-Webster
  2. bewildering: Collins English Dictionary
  3. bewildering: Vocabulary.com
  4. Bewildering, bewildering: Wordnik
  5. bewildering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. bewildering: Wiktionary
  7. bewildering: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Bewildering, bewildering: Dictionary.com
  9. bewildering: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Bewildering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. bewildering: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. bewildering: Rhymezone
  13. bewildering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. bewildering: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. bewildering: FreeDictionary.org
  16. bewildering: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. bewildering: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. bewildering: Legal dictionary

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  1. bewildering: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Very baffling, confusing, or perplexing, often due to a very large choice being available.

Similar:
unclear, mystifying, perplexing, confuddled, flabbergasting, baffling, mindboggling, mind-boggling, bogglesome, confusive, more...

Opposite:
clear, simple, understandable, comprehensible

Types:
confusing, perplexing, baffling, puzzling, ambiguous, enigmatic, more...

Phrases:
bewildering and painful, more...

Adjectives:
little, first, more, french, very, nigh, greek, endless

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    chameleon,     electric blue,     neon green,     ultraviolet, more...



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Similar:
unclear, mystifying, perplexing, confuddled, flabbergasting, baffling, mindboggling, mind-boggling, bogglesome, confusive, more...

Opposite:
clear, simple, understandable, comprehensible

Types:
confusing, perplexing, baffling, puzzling, ambiguous, enigmatic, more...

Phrases:
bewildering and painful, more...

Adjectives:
little, first, more, french, very, nigh, greek, endless

Colors:
    chameleon,     electric blue,     neon green,     ultraviolet, more...



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