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  1. bemused, deep in thought(p), lost(p), preoccupiedadjective

    deeply absorbed in thought

    "as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class"; "lost in thought"; "a preoccupied frown"

    Antonyms:
    thoughtless, unperplexed

  2. baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at seaadjective

    perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment

    "obviously bemused by his questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt lost on the first day of school"

    Synonyms:
    scattered, befuddled, helpless, lost(p), mixed-up, disoriented, woolly, deep in thought(p), disjointed, disordered, preoccupied, at sea, illogical, woolly-headed, missed, confused, disconnected, unconnected, addled, muddled, baffled, upset, lost, befogged, confounded, muzzy, wooly-minded, broken, wooly, garbled, mazed, bewildered

    Antonyms:
    thoughtless, unperplexed

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. bemusedadjective

    Synonyms:
    stupefied, confused, bewildered, MUZZY, half-drunk

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How to use bemused in a sentence?

  1. Martin Boon:

    Bemused? You have every right to be, if you want to ask me, which is unlikely, the answer you’d get is 'I just don’t know.'.

  2. Ronald David Laing:

    We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world -- mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.

  3. Paul Bacon:

    Within Japan, every professional person I speak to is bemused by Brexit, it is obvious here how economically damaging it will be, and also that it creates serious difficulties for Japanese industry.

  4. Martin Boon:

    Bemused? You have every right to be, if you want to ask me, which is unlikely, the answer you’d get is 'I just don’t know,'.

  5. Ben Lyons:

    We've been bemused for some time at the lack of share price depreciation in light of the deteriorating earnings profile for the group and we've been skeptical for many months about the dividend policy of the company, it's interesting to see how things have played out reasonably rapidly. Brazil was certainly one of the major catalysts.


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  • verwirrt, verwundert, irritiert, verblüfft, nachdenklich gestimmtGerman

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