What is "bemused" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does bemused mean in English? Meaning of bemused definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "bemused" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "bemused": deeply absorbed in thought

Adjective

  • Meaning: deeply absorbed in thought
  • Example: as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class lost in thought a preoccupied frown
  • Synonyms: bemused deep in thought lost preoccupied
  • Similar: thoughtful
  • Meaning of "bemused": perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment

    Adjective

  • Meaning: perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
  • Example: 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: at sea baffled befuddled bemused bewildered confounded confused lost mazed mixed-up
  • Similar: perplexed
  • Adjective: simple past tense and past participle of bemuse
  • Synonyms:

    distracted, absent, preoccupied, lost, abstracted, engrossed, absorbed, dreamy, faraway, inattentive, a million miles away, bewildered, dazed, perplexed, befuddled, puzzled, discombobulated, thrown, muddled, stupefied, fuzzy, flustered,

    Antonyms:

    existing, bored, disinterested, uninterested, unoccupied, clear,

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    bemused in English: bemused
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