What is another word for bewilderingly?

Pronunciation: [bɪwˈɪldəɹɪŋlɪ] (IPA)

When trying to convey a sense of confusion or disorientation, the word "bewilderingly" may not always be the most effective choice. There are many synonyms that can be used to communicate this feeling more accurately, such as "perplexingly," "confoundingly," "bafflingly," or "mystifyingly." Other alternatives might include "disorienting," "puzzling," "confusing," "troubling," or "unsettling." Depending on the context, different synonyms may be more appropriate to use. By choosing the right word to describe these complex and confusing emotions, writers can convey a more precise meaning and evoke a stronger emotional response in their readers.

What are the hypernyms for Bewilderingly?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Bewilderingly

These crossed and re-crossed each other bewilderingly, like the fibers of an unraveled rope.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
Evanthia Solaris seemed to have eluded classification because, without possessing any gifts at all beyond a certain magnetism bewilderingly composed of feminine timidity and tigerish courage, she had inspired in him a strange belief that she would bring him good fortune.
"Command"
William McFee
Memories of that stormy time appeared to crowd upon him bewilderingly.
"Stories of the Foot-hills"
Margaret Collier Graham

Famous quotes with Bewilderingly

  • Once, along with , he played a class Rachmaninoff’s . Most of the class had not seen the painting, so he went to the library and returned with a reproduction of it. Then he pointed, with a sober smile, to a painting which hung on the wall of the classroom (, one might have called it; yet this would have been unjust to it—it was non-representational) and played for the class, on the piano, a composition which he said was an interpretation of the painting: he played very slowly and very calmly, with his elbows, so that it sounded like blocks falling downstairs, but in slow motion. But half his class took this as seriously as they took everything else, and asked him for weeks afterward about prepared pianos, tone-clusters, and the compositions of John Cage and Henry Cowell; one girl finally brought him a lovely silk-screen reproduction of a painting by Jackson Pollock, and was just opening her mouth to— He interrupted, bewilderingly, by asking the Lord what land He had brought him into. The girl stared at him open-mouthed, and he at once said apologetically that he was only quoting Mahler, who had ; then he gave her such a winning smile that she said to her roommate that night, forgivingly: “He really is a nice old guy. You never would know famous.” “Is he really famous?” her roommate asked. “I never heard of him before I got here. ...”
    Randall Jarrell
  • I felt that some horrible scene or object lurked beyond the silk-hung walls, and shrank from glancing through the arched, latticed windows that opened so bewilderingly on every hand.
    H. P. Lovecraft

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