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Antonyms for bafflement
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : baf-uh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈbæf əl |
- achievement
- advantage
- aid
- assistance
- attainment
- benefit
- blessing
- boon
- boost
- calm
- calmness
- cheerfulness
- comfort
- contentedness
- contentment
- delight
- ease
- encouragement
- euphoria
- expectation
- felicity
- good fortune
- happiness
- harmony
- health
- help
- hopefulness
- joy
- miracle
- peace
- pleasure
- relief
- satisfaction
- solution
- success
- tranquility
- triumph
- win
- wonder
Definition of bafflement
Origin :- 1841, from baffle (v.) + -ment.
- As in bewilderment : noun puzzlement
- As in befuddlement : noun daze
- As in bemusement : noun confusion
- As in bewilderedness : noun daze
- As in difficulty : noun mental burden
- As in disappointment : noun mental upset; displeasure
- She held out her hand for the bank-note which, with a sense of bafflement, he gave her.
- Extract from : « The Place of Honeymoons » by Harold MacGrath
- Mike took heart, his experience believed and his bafflement shared.
- Extract from : « Mr. Wicker's Window » by Carley Dawson
- Dick shook his head in bafflement, and glanced at his watch.
- Extract from : « The Little Lady of the Big House » by Jack London
- Kirk ran his fingers through his hair in a gesture of bafflement.
- Extract from : « Twelve Times Zero » by Howard Carleton Browne
- His voice sounded odd and tired, and there was an ache of bafflement in his young eyes.
- Extract from : « David Dunne » by Belle Kanaris Maniates
- With a little sigh of bafflement she took the last tightly rolled bundle of clothing from the suit-case.
- Extract from : « The Price » by Francis Lynde
- His head swam, and a sickening sense of bafflement and incompetency came over him.
- Extract from : « The Treasure of Heaven » by Marie Corelli
- A flutter of bafflement showed in her black lashes, but the lips continued to twitch mischievously.
- Extract from : « The Heritage of the Hills » by Arthur P. Hankins
- It was fixed first on Mlanie, then on Agatha, then returned to Mlanie with an added increment of rage and bafflement.
- Extract from : « The Stolen Singer » by Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger
- A madness of bafflement and frustrated curiosity gripped and shook me.
- Extract from : « The Thing from the Lake » by Eleanor M. Ingram
Synonyms for bafflement
- ado
- adverse fate
- adversity
- aggravation
- annoyance
- anxiety
- bafflement
- befuddlement
- bewilderedness
- bewilderment
- blow
- bother
- care
- chagrin
- charge
- complication
- confusion
- crisis
- daze
- defeat
- depression
- despondency
- discombobulation
- discontent
- discouragement
- disenchantment
- disgruntlement
- disillusion
- disillusionment
- disorientation
- dissatisfaction
- distress
- embarrassment
- emergency
- exigency
- failure
- fog
- frustration
- grievance
- hangup
- harassment
- imbroglio
- inconvenience
- irritation
- jam
- lack of success
- letdown
- maze
- mess
- millstone
- misery
- mortification
- muddle
- nonsuccess
- obfuscation
- oppression
- perplexity
- pickle
- pinch
- predicament
- pressure
- puzzle
- puzzlement
- quandary
- ramification
- regret
- responsibility
- scrape
- setback
- strain
- strait
- stress
- strife
- struggle
- stupefaction
- stupor
- surprise
- the knocks
- to-do
- trouble
- unfulfillment
- vicissitude
- weight
- worry
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