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adjective

Definition of befuddlingnext
as in perplexing

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befuddling

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verb

present participle of befuddle
as in baffling
to throw into a state of mental uncertainty most of the applicants were befuddled by the wording of one of the questions on the driving test

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for befuddling
  1. perplexing
  2. dismaying
  3. bewildering
  4. upsetting
  5. incomprehensible
Adjective
  • Making sense of what the affable and passionate Che is up to at his tiny restaurant can be perplexing.
    Matthew Odam, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Pope No position encapsulates Newcastle’s perplexing summer better than the incomplete reshuffling of the goalkeeper department.
    Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 14 Aug. 2024
Definition of perplexing
Adjective
  • The math suggests a dismaying possibility: these votes may very well swing.
    Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Amid the meal, the guest made a dismaying discovery.
    Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 14 Oct. 2024
Definition of dismaying
Adjective
  • Things to Come was directed by legendary production designer William Cameron Menzies, who later designed the burning of Atlanta in Gone with the Wind and clearly influenced Coppola’s skyscraper imagery and his bewildering mix of futurism and antiquity.
    Armond White, National Review, 9 Oct. 2024
  • For Leifer, the irony—that Jews, who had long been pressured by the right to police anti-Zionism, now faced pressure from the left to disavow Zionism in any form—was bewildering.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
Definition of bewildering
Adjective
  • Balance upsetting coverage with good news, stories of progress, and examples of people who have gone through tragedy and made it to the other side.
    Allie Volpe, Vox, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Dye notes that the upsetting details of the case in the quiet Mississippi beach town have had reverberating effects on the small seaside community.
    Emily Palmer, People.com, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of upsetting
Adjective
  • The rest of the world finds this arrangement incomprehensible.
    Joseph J. Ellis, The Mercury News, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Their contributions to my life are incomprehensible.
    Emma Madden, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of incomprehensible
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