What's the difference between bewildering and mysterious?

Bewildering


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bewilder
  • (a.) Causing bewilderment or great perplexity; as, bewildering difficulties.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He was standing in the street looking windswept and bewildered.
  • (2) In a complex so large that travelator conveyor belts were installed to ferry visitors between the exhibition halls, the multitude of new gadgets on display can be bewildering.
  • (3) Its president, the former Canadian Liberal party leader and former Observer columnist Michael Ignatieff, is bewildered.
  • (4) Their response has always completely bewildered me.
  • (5) The chancellor also said that the sometimes bewildering array of initiatives already in existence for small firms would be streamlined under the banner of UK Finance for Growth, which will oversee the existing £4bn of schemes.
  • (6) Ross loved a girl of 17, so he married her when he was 28; a field-day for predictors of doom who must now be bewildered that two decades and three children proved them wrong.
  • (7) The presence of a de novo phosphatidylethanolamine Kennedy pathway in P. falciparum contributes to the bewildering variety of phospholipid biosynthetic pathways in this parasitic organism.
  • (8) 2 Attract the Comedian’s attention by having bewildering hair, wearing a necklace of multi-coloured fairy lights and launching two flares up into the lighting rig.
  • (9) Amid the incoherent responses that make up a bewildering official narrative, the idea that the militants are funded by the government is gaining currency.
  • (10) If you talk to anybody who is not in the Labour party, they’re actually bewildered that he’s still in place,” Low added.
  • (11) Invited by Marcus Rashford to make a dart into the area Martial breezed past a bewildered Besic to cut the ball back from the byline and present Marouane Fellaini with a goal against his former club.
  • (12) This is not surprising because although textbooks recommend a bewildering variety of test doses, they seldom give precise details as to how they should be conducted.
  • (13) Ross Sutherland's Standby For Tape Back-Up, which still bewilders me.
  • (14) Reportedly, her teleprompter conked out, inadvertently taking thousands of fresh “Obama Teleprompter” jokes with it, so she ad libbed, ultimately going 10 minutes over her allotted time while hurling out rewarmed zingers and bewildering anecdotes.
  • (15) But more rounded beer fans will find plenty to enjoy in its vast array of bottles (a bit bewildering, as there was no menu on a recent visit) and 13 keg lines.
  • (16) Instead – plainly bewildering to some commentators – here is unaccustomed unity of purpose.
  • (17) When General Electric jobs left Schenectady so did a way of life Read more Patrignani proudly chats me through the bewildering array of silicone-based products Momentive makes and that end up in everything from lipstick, car parts and the adhesives that are used in stamps and bandages to airplane seats and the glue that held the tiles on the space shuttle.
  • (18) He is bewildered by the "contradiction" within sections of the disability lobby, some of whom fear that the law will be used to discriminate against disabled people's quality of life and persuade them to end their lives instead.
  • (19) Burke told Guardian Australia: "I find some of the political points quite bewildering.
  • (20) So much so that the 28-year-old at the centre of it all is quite bewildered.

Mysterious


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to mystery; containing a mystery; difficult or impossible to understand; obscure not revealed or explained; enigmatical; incomprehensible.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ofcom will conduct research, such as mystery shopping, to assess the transparency of contractual information given to customers by providers at the point of sale".
  • (2) Totò was a legend in the Vesuvian city – a comedian of genius; poignant, mysterious.
  • (3) And that ancient Basque cultural gem – the mysterious language with its odd Xs, Ks and Ts – will be honoured at every turn in a city where it was forbidden by Franco.
  • (4) The etiology of the panvasculitis still remains a mystery.
  • (5) Meeting after meeting during 2011 to try to hammer out agreements about the basic shape of the Egyptian constitution – meetings that always mysteriously collapsed.
  • (6) Director Gareth Edwards , who made Godzilla, introduced a tantalizing concept reel to preview the mysterious film, which is part of a series of films exploring other stories outside of the core Star Wars saga.
  • (7) In EastEnders , the mystery surrounding the identity of Kat's secret squeeze continues amid the grinding of narrative levers and the death rattle of overflogged script-horses.
  • (8) The exact purpose of the complex is a mystery, though it is clearly ancient.
  • (9) Of course, the great British countryside was never as twee as that – a point made forcibly by the second album from mysterious electronic collective Hacker Farm .
  • (10) Askap will also help astronomers investigate one of the greatest mysteries of the universe: dark energy.
  • (11) Dickens's last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend , has a mysterious hero, John Rokesmith, who turns out to be someone different from the person we were told he was.
  • (12) Where once Gaga was mysterious and her music unavoidable, the mystique has evaporated and the music easy to miss.
  • (13) "How these union bosses get elected, how they raise money, how they disperse money is a complete and utter mystery.
  • (14) Despite extensive research, the aetiology of this infectious disease which affects mainly infants and young children remains mysterious.
  • (15) Death in utero (or immediately following birth) of children of diabetic mothers remains rather mysterious.
  • (16) Now trapped in an occupied city, she takes on a job as a housekeeper to mysterious bachelor Gabriel Ortega.
  • (17) In response to a question from the host, Jake Tapper, about allegations that the Russian ambassador “is a spy”, Rubio said: “It is not a mystery to anyone that virtually every embassy in Washington DC has some intelligence component associated with it.” Fact check: what did Trump's tweets about Obama's 'wiretaps' mean?
  • (18) Since then, his whereabouts have been a mystery, but this week his brother told Associated Press that he had received new and disturbing information from one of the policemen who took Gao away.
  • (19) Yet elsewhere in Syria, the strikes against Isis opened what US officials indicate as an opportunity to strike a mysterious al-Qaida cell in Syria believed to have been in the advanced stages for bomb attacks against US or western targets.
  • (20) How Balls achieves his £1.2bn from a mansion tax is a mystery.

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