Bewilderedly vs Bewildered - What's the difference?
bewilderedly | bewildered | Derived terms |
In a bewildered manner; with puzzlement.
* 1888 , , "The Mystery of Wilhelm Rütte" in Between Whiles :
* 1917 , , Starr, of the Desert , ch. 2:
* 1944 Dec. 25, "
* 2010 May 19, Ruth La Ferla, "
Baffled, confused, mystified, at a loss, or uncertain.
(bewilder)
Bewilderedly is a derived term of bewildered.
As a adverb bewilderedly
is in a bewildered manner; with puzzlement.As a adjective bewildered is
baffled, confused, mystified, at a loss, or uncertain.As a verb bewildered is
(bewilder).bewilderedly
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- Carlen was crying bitterly; the letter was just ended, when Alf came into the room asking bewilderedly what it was all about.
- He said good night and left her wondering bewilderedly what strange thing her dad would do next.
America: Pattern of Revolution," Time :
- But Lend-Lease generosity made Franklin Roosevelt so popular with the dictators that, when Wendell Willkie ran against him, a nephew of Carias Andino asked bewilderedly : "Why doesn't Roosevelt have him shot?"
Where God and the Devil Once Lived," New York Times (retrieved 30 July 2011):
- Once, this neo-Gothic landmark in Chelsea was the Church of the Holy Communion. . . . A decade later, it was Limelight, the nightclub-slash-den of depravity. . . . Today that fabled nightclub is a mall. . . . Entering by a side door, one young woman patently ignorant of the place’s tainted past, glanced around bewilderedly . “I thought that this was a house of God,” she murmured.
Synonyms
* confusedlybewildered
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was just standing there, turning this way and that, with a bewildered look on his face.