bewilderedly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a bewildered manner; with puzzlement.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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?""
- "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."
Etymology
From bewildered + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more bewilderedly (comparative)
most bewilderedly (superlative)