bewilderingly

1. 1.

   in a bewildering and confusing manner

   “her situation was bewilderingly unclear”

   Synonymsconfusingly

Questions about bewilderingly

What does bewilderingly mean?

bewilderingly means "in a bewildering and confusing manner".

How many syllables are in bewilderingly?

bewilderingly has 5 syllables and divides as be-wil-de-rin-gly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for bewilderingly?

Close synonyms include confusingly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bewilderingly a common word?

bewilderingly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.