Bewildered vs Desperate - What's the difference?
bewildered | desperate |
Baffled, confused, mystified, at a loss, or uncertain.
(bewilder)
Being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless.
* (William Shakespeare)
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, title= Without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious.
* Macaulay
Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable.
Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous.
* (William Shakespeare)
* Macaulay
Extremely intense.
As adjectives the difference between bewildered and desperate
is that bewildered is baffled, confused, mystified, at a loss, or uncertain while desperate is being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless.As a verb bewildered
is (bewilder).bewildered
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was just standing there, turning this way and that, with a bewildered look on his face.
Derived terms
* bewilderedlyVerb
(head)desperate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Since his exile she hath despised me most, / Forsworn my company and rail'd at me, / That I am desperate of obtaining her.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
- desperate expedients
- a desperate offendress against nature
- the most desperate of reprobates