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Bemused   /bɪmjˈuzd/   Listen
Bemused

adjective
1.
Deeply absorbed in thought.  Synonyms: deep in thought, lost, preoccupied.  "Lost in thought" , "A preoccupied frown"
2.
Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment.  Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up.  "Bewildered and confused" , "A cloudy and confounded philosopher" , "Just a mixed-up kid" , "She felt lost on the first day of school"





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"Bemused" Quotes from Famous Books



... towards his loose mouth. Again I looked at the Augusta. Still she sat there like a statue, and it came into my mind that it was her purpose to allow this wine-bemused man to eat the ...
— The Wanderer's Necklace • H. Rider Haggard
... 'Femininism' is deftly turned aside by Miss Volz, by the simple device of substituting for it the word Pessimism. And Dr Tille, the translator of his best-known work, 'Thus spake Zarathustra' (1896, p. xix), has been bemused in an even more wonderful manner. He enumerates "the best known representatives" of Anarchic tendencies in political thought as "Humboldt, Dunoyer, Stirner, Bakounine, and Auberon Spencer"! The vision of Mr Auberon Herbert and Mr Herbert Spencer doubled up into a single individual ...
— Recent Tendencies in Ethics • William Ritchie Sorley


Words linked to "Bemused" :   thoughtful, perplexed


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