bemused
from
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}]
from
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
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