[syn: baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at sea]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
bemused
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(p), lost(p),
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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
75 Moby Thesaurus words for "bemused":
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