Synonyms of bamboozling

bamboozling

verb

present participle of bamboozle

1

as in tricking

to cause to believe what is untrue

bamboozled by con men into buying worthless land in the desert

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tricking
• fooling
• deceiving
• hoodwinking
• misleading
• duping
• conning
• misinforming
• gulling
• deluding
• teasing
• kidding
• misguiding
• suckering
• snookering
• hoaxing
• humbugging
• juggling
• beguiling
• bluffing
• cozening
• cheating
• stinging
• gaffing
• catching
• spoofing
• sucking in
• stringing along
• snowing
• having
• gammoning
• burning
• taking in
• having on
• hornswoggling
• buffaloing
• faking out
• doing a number on
• leading one up the garden path
• defrauding
• leading one down the garden path
• fleecing
• swindling
• pulling one's leg
• pulling the wool over one's eyes
• shortchanging
• sticking
• mulcting
• hustling
• rooking
• putting on
• diddling
• chiselling
• bleeding
• chiseling
• flimflamming
• squeezing
• skinning
• euchring

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• exposing
• revealing
• uncovering
• debunking
• telling
• unmasking
• disclosing
• divulging
• undeceiving
• showing up
• unveiling
• disillusioning
• disabusing
• uncloaking
• disenchanting

2

as in baffling

to throw into a state of mental uncertainty

I'm completely bamboozled by the latest changes in the tax code

Synonyms & Similar Words

• baffling
• bewildering
• puzzling
• perplexing
• confusing
• befuddling
• flummoxing
• mystifying
• confounding
• embarrassing
• muddling
• flustering
• posing
• disorienting
• discombobulating
• bemusing
• vexing
• bothering
• rattling
• muddying
• stunning
• fuddling
• addling
• disturbing
• gravelling
• upsetting
• getting
• graveling
• befogging
• mazing
• beating
• unsettling
• stumping
• buffaloing
• foxing
• blowing one's mind
• sticking
• disconcerting
• distressing
• hoodwinking
• fooling
• tricking
• discomfiting
• going to one's head
• duping
• fazing
• deceiving
• misleading
• agitating
• deluding
• mortifying
• gulling
• abashing
• perturbing
• misguiding
• dismaying
• discomforting
• disquieting
• beguiling
• hoaxing
• humbugging
• unhinging
• discountenancing
• cozening
• discomposing
• nonplussing
• nonplusing
• weirding out
• snowing
• chagrining
• taking in
• stringing along

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• assuring
• satisfying
• informing
• reassuring
• enlightening