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Bemused definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BEMU'SED, a. [be and muse.] Overcome with musing; dreaming; a word of contempt.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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" [syn: bemused, deep in thought, lost, preoccupied]
2: 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" [syn: baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at sea]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you are bemused, you are puzzled or confused. He was rather bemused by children... Mr. Sebastian was looking at the boys with a bemused expression. = bewildered ADJ • bemusedly He was staring bemusedly at the picture of himself. ADV: ADV after v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Stupefied, confused, bewildered, muddled, muzzy, tipsy, half-seas-over, half-drunk.

Moby Thesaurus

absent, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, addled, beery, besotted, blind drunk, castle-building, crapulent, crapulous, daydreaming, daydreamy, distrait, dizzy, dreaming, dreamy, drenched, drowsing, drunk, drunken, ecstatic, elsewhere, engrossed, far-gone, faraway, flustered, fou, full, gay, giddy, glorious, half-awake, happy, in a reverie, in liquor, in the clouds, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, intoxicated, jolly, lost, lost in thought, maudlin, meditative, mellow, merry, mooning, moonraking, muddled, museful, musing, napping, nappy, nodding, oblivious, pensive, pipe-dreaming, preoccupied, rapt, reeling, shikker, sodden, somewhere else, sotted, stargazing, taken up, tiddly, tipsy, transported, unconscious, under the influence, woolgathering, wrapped in thought