Bemused

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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:
               {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},
           {bewildered}, {confounded}, {confused}, {lost}, {mazed},
          {mixed-up}, {at sea}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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