Word Meanings - BEWILDERMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The state of being bewildered. 2. A bewildering tangle or confusion. He . . . soon lost all traces of it amid bewilderment of tree trunks and underbrush. Hawthorne.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BEWILDERMENT)

• Amazement
• astonishment
• awe
• wonder
• bewilderment
• surprise
• stupefication
• marvel
• Astonishment
• Wonder
• amazement
• admiration
• stupefaction
• fascination
• Consternation
• astounding
• horror
• terror
• dismay
• Deceit
• Cheat
• imposition
• trick
• fraud
• deception
• double dealing
• delusion
• circumvention
• guile
• treachery
• sham
• insidiousness
• indirection
• duplicity
• cunning
• artifice
• Intoxication
• Venom
• poison
• obfuscation
• delirium
• hallucination
• ravishment
• ecstasy
• inebriation
• drunkenness
• inebriety

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BEWILDERMENT)

• Enlighten
• guide
• remunerate
• compensate
• undeceive
• disabuse
• Encourage
• rally
• inspirit
• assure
• allure

Related words: (words related to BEWILDERMENT)

• ASSURER
  1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy.
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• ARTIFICER
  A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
• WONDERSTRUCK
  Struck with wonder, admiration, or surprise. Dryden.
• DOUBLE-SHADE
  To double the natural darkness of . Milton.
• DOUBLE-LOCK
  To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security. Tatler.
• DEALBATION
  Act of bleaching; a whitening.
• ENCOURAGER
  One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
• TERRORLESS
  Free from terror. Poe.
• WONDER
  Etym: 1. To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel. I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals. Swift. We cease to wonder at what we understand. Johnson.
• DOUBLE DEALER
  One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.
• CUNNINGNESS
  Quality of being cunning; craft.
• DEALFISH
  A long, thin fish of the arctic seas .
• TRICKISH
  Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n.
• DOUBLEHEARTED
  Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous. Sandys.
• DOUBLETHREADED
  Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads. (more info) 1. Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.
• CHEATABLE
  Capable of being cheated.
• UNDECEIVE
  To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South.
• TRICKERY
  The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
• POISON CUP
  1. A cup containing poison. 2. A cup that was supposed to break on having poison put into it.
• THYROIDEAL
  Thyroid.
• ENTERDEAL
  Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
• SUTURALLY
  In a sutural manner.
• OUTVENOM
  To exceed in venom.
• WOLLASTON'S DOUBLET
  A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion.
• CENTRALLY
  In a central manner or situation.
• UNASSURED
  1. Not assured; not bold or confident. 2. Not to be trusted. Spenser. 3. Not insured against loss; as, unassured goods.
• DOUBLE
  Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally
• ENVENOM
  1. To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to poison by impregnating with venom. Alcides . . .
• IDEALISTIC
  Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.
• PASTORALLY
  1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor.
• SPIT-VENOM
  Poison spittle; poison ejected from the mouth. Hooker.