HTTP/2 200
date: Wed, 08 Oct 2025 02:07:26 GMT
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
content-security-policy-report-only: default-src 'self';img-src 'self' data: https://flickr.com https://*.flickr.com https://s.gravatar.com https://s.gravatar.com/avatar https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar https://i1.wp.com/cdn.auth0.com/avatars https://cdn.auth0.com/avatars https://g.stripe.com/ https://ssl.google-analytics.com https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/ https://farm66.static.flickr.com https://www.google-analytics.com https://tpc.googlesyndication.com https://pbs.twimg.com https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net https://*.amazon-adsystem.com https://fundingchoicesmessages.google.com https://*.3lift.com https://ams-pageview-public.s3.amazonaws.com https://www.google.com https://syndication.twitter.com https://image8.pubmatic.com https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net https://*.googleusercontent.com;base-uri 'self';font-src 'self' https: data:;frame-ancestors 'self';frame-src https://js.stripe.com https://platform.twitter.com/ https://syndication.twitter.com/ https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/ https://*.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/ https://www.google.com/ https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/;connect-src 'self' https: https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ppub_config https://bam.nr-data.net/events/1/cb925c8058;object-src none;script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' report-sample https://js.stripe.com/v3/ https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.min.js https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.slim.min.js https://code.jquery.com/jquery-migrate-1.4.1.min.js https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/popper.js@1.16.0/dist/umd/popper.min.js https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.4.1/js/bootstrap.min.js https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/validate.js/0.13.1/validate.min.js https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/underscore.js/1.8.3/underscore-min.js https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/list.js/1.5.0/list.min.js https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js https://www.googletagmanager.com/ https://ssl.google-analytics.com/ga.js https://js-agent.newrelic.com/nr-spa-1184.min.js https://fundingchoicesmessages.google.com https://bam.nr-data.net https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net https://www.googletagservices.com https://adservice.google.com https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/tether/1.4.0/js/tether.min.js https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.12.9/umd/popper.min.js https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/clipboard@2.0.8/dist/clipboard.min.js https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/howler/2.1.1/howler.min.js https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/validator/10.9.0/validator.min.js https://*.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/ https://*.googlesyndication.com/ https://platform.twitter.com/js/ https://cdn.ampproject.org https://www.google-analytics.com https://adservice.google.be https://adservice.google.ca https://adservice.google.co.id https://adservice.google.co.mz https://adservice.google.co.th https://adservice.google.co.uk https://adservice.google.co.za https://adservice.google.com.au https://adservice.google.com.ec https://adservice.google.com.hk https://adservice.google.com.ng https://adservice.google.com.np https://adservice.google.com.ph https://adservice.google.com.sa https://adservice.google.de https://adservice.google.es https://adservice.google.fi https://adservice.google.fr https://adservice.google.ie https://adservice.google.it https://adservice.google.lk https://adservice.google.lt https://adservice.google.nl https://adservice.google.no https://adservice.google.rs https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net;script-src-attr none;style-src 'self' https: 'unsafe-inline' report-sample;report-uri https://5f9d927665d1a16209ba908c.endpoint.csper.io
x-dns-prefetch-control: off
expect-ct: max-age=0
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
strict-transport-security: max-age=15552000; includeSubDomains
x-download-options: noopen
x-content-type-options: nosniff
x-permitted-cross-domain-policies: none
referrer-policy: origin-when-cross-origin
x-xss-protection: 0
etag: W/"125a7-xXbEzIoPw4v6FoPn8k0c5JIho6Q"
set-cookie: cookienik=eyJjc3JmU2VjcmV0IjoiRkdkblZCSEw0NEFTMXRrZV95WktLX0RqIn0=; path=/; expires=Sat, 11 Oct 2025 02:07:26 GMT; domain=wordnik.com; secure; httponly
set-cookie: cookienik.sig=1MbpAn6Ujt-i8s-8HEYsDcPOIXs; path=/; expires=Sat, 11 Oct 2025 02:07:26 GMT; domain=wordnik.com; secure; httponly
vary: Accept-Encoding
content-encoding: gzip
bewilderment - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun noun
from The Century Dictionary.
noun
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun noun
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun bewildered .noun confusing or perplexing situation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From bewilder + -ment .
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word bewilderment .
Examples
In response to what he called the "bewilderment " of people watching the child sexual abuse scandal unfold at Penn State, Rep. Kerry Benninghoff said he plans to introduce legislation to make more information about state-related universities available to the public.
KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011
And how awful that poor Mary dies as she lived — stupidly, clumsily, in "bewilderment ," running foolishly back and forth.
The Prime of Ms. Muriel Spark 2004
And how awful that poor Mary dies as she lived — stupidly, clumsily, in "bewilderment ," running foolishly back and forth.
The Prime of Ms. Muriel Spark 2004
Mark stares in bewilderment , wondering how this person was ever just “Jenny from the Block.”
Beat 360° – 9/17/2009 2009
The presence we make known: As our group of robed, stoled and collaredmarchersweavedthroughthe financialdistrict, on more than one occasion I saw an expression of bewilderment in the eyes of observers.
Bruce Reyes-Chow: Faith Leaders March And Pray For Occupy San Francisco Bruce Reyes-Chow 2011
My guess is the rednecks are scratching their heads in bewilderment right now?
Romney wins presidential straw poll by a single vote 2010
I wish I could come away with a reaction other than scratching my head in bewilderment , thinking Oh, that seems like a promising set-up .... oh.
Cast Returns for The Hangover Sequel | /Film 2010
The people of SC must be just shaking their heads in bewilderment at each crazy turn of events.
SLED finds no 'misuse' from Sanford 2009
The man shook his head in bewilderment and said he couldn't understand why girls would fantasize about a deformed psychopath, and I said, Don't you get it?
March Christian Science Fiction & Fantasy Blog Tour 2010
The man shook his head in bewilderment and said he couldn't understand why girls would fantasize about a deformed psychopath, and I said, Don't you get it?
Archive 2010-03-01 2010
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.