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bewilderments

bewilderments is the plural of bewilderment.

Meaning of bewilderment

Noun

bewilderment (countable and uncountable, plural bewilderments)

  1. The state of being bewildered.
    • She looked around in bewilderment.
  2. A confusing or perplexing situation.
    • Her flutter--pale disconcerted ghost as she actually was, a broken white flower tied round, almost grotesquely for his present sense, with a huge satin "bow" of the Boulevard--her flutter had been mainly that of ribbons, frills and fine fabrics; all funny, pathetic evidence, for memory, of the...1904, Henry James, The Golden Bowl, page 99

Questions about bewilderments

What is bewilderments the plural of?
Bewilderments is the plural of bewilderment.

Words near bewilderments in the dictionary

  1. bewildering
  2. bewilderingly
  3. bewilderingness
  4. bewilderings
  5. bewilderment
  6. bewilderments
  7. bewilders
  8. bewile
  9. bewiled
  10. bewiles
  11. bewiling

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