Bemused

Definitions: Bemused

Bemused

Adjective

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".

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".

Date "bemused" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonyms: Bemused

Synonyms: at sea (adj), baffled (adj), befuddled (adj), bewildered (adj), confounded (adj), confused (adj), deep in thought(p) (adj), lost (adj), lost(p) (adj), mazed (adj), mixed-up (adj), preoccupied (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Inattention	Absent, abstracted, distrait; absentminded, lost; lost in thought, wrapped in thought; rapt, in the clouds, bemused; dreaming on other things, musing on other things; preoccupied, engrossed; (attentive); daydreaming, in a reverie; Noun: off one's guard; (inexpectant); napping; dreamy; caught napping.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Bemused

English words defined with "bemused": at sea ♦ baffled, befuddled, bewildered ♦ confounded, confused ♦ deep in thought ♦ lost ♦ mazed, mixed-up ♦ preoccupied. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Fourth Eye: Reflections of a Bemused Mystic (reference) Political speak : the bemused voters' guide to insults, promises, leadership coups, media grabs, pork-barrelling and old fashioned double-speak (reference) The bemused investor's guide to company accounts in New Zealand (reference) (more book examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	After a while the faces of the watching men lost their bemused perplexity and became hard and angry and resistant.
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Speaker	Phrase(s)
Katie Couric	So I was slightly bemused by it, to say the least. You know, I never can quite figure out who talks, how this gets out and why it appears in print. So I felt very uncomfortable about the whole thing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Bemused" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bemused" is used about 305 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	305	16,573

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "bemused": bemused-looking.
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Language		Translations for "bemused"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i zhytur në mendime (absorbed in thought, immersed in thought, pensive, thoughtful), i mahnitur (ecstatic, rapt). (various references)

Arabic		‏مرتبك (agitated, baffled, bewildered, confounded, confused, discomfited, disconcerted, disquieted, disturbed, embarrassed, lummox, perplexed, perturbed, puzzled, uneasy, upset). (various references)

Bulgarian		вглъбен, омаян (fascinated, spellbound). (various references)

Czech		zmatený (addle-brained, addle-pated, bewildered, chaotic, confused, disordered, embroiled, in confusion, mazy, mixed, muddy, screwed up, turbid), zadumaný (thoughtful), omráèený. (various references)

French		stupéfiant. (various references)

German		benommen (dazed, giddily, groggy, light-headed, muzzy, numb, punch-drink, stunned), verwirrte (baffled, bewildered, deranged, disarranged, disconcerted, distracted, dizzyingly, embarrassed, flustered, muddled, perplexed), verwirrt (afoul, baffled, baffles, befuddled, bemuses, bewildered, bewilders, confused, confuses, dazed, dazedly, dazzlingly, deranges, disarranges, discombobulates, disconcerts, dishevels, disorients, distracts, disturbed, dizzied, embarrasses, flustered, flusters, fuddled, muddles, perplexed, perplexes, perturbed, puzzled, uncertain, unsettles). (various references)

Greek		σαστισμένοσ (muzzy). (various references)

Hebrew		� בוך (bewildered, confused, embarrassed, foxed, hot under the collar, ill at ease, in a stew, perplexed, perturbed, self conscious, sheepish). (various references)

Hungarian		megzavart (disconcerted, entangled, out of joint), elhomályosított. (various references)

Pig Latin		emusedbay

Russian		ошеломленный (aghast, dizzy, flabbergasted, perplexed, spellbound, staggering, thunderstruck), озадаченный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		udubljen u misli. (various references)

Spanish		perplejo (at a loss, befuddled, bewildered, bushed, confounded, leak, perplexed, puzzled), confundido (baffled, confounded, confused, foxed), abstraído (absentminded, abstracted, faraway, preoccupied). (various references)

Swedish		förvirrad (baffled, besotted, confused, dazed, disconcerted, distracted, dizzy, mixed up, muddle-headed, perplexed, perturbed, upset, woolly minded, woozy). (various references)

Thai		ซึ่งสับสน (muzzy, tangled). (various references)

Turkish		sersemlemiş (bewildered, dizzy, fuddled, giddy, light in the head, light-headed, punch-drunk, slaphappy), kafası karışmış (addle, addled, confused, perplexed, puzzled, puzzle-headed), şaşkın (addle-brained, addled, addle-headed, addle-pated, all abroad, at an end, bepuzzle, bewildered, confused, consternated, dizzy, dumbfounded, gaping, happy, open-eyed, pixilated, puzzled, puzzle-headed, sheepish, slaphappy, taken aback, thunderstruck, twisted, wide-eyed, wondering). (various references)

Ukranian		спантеличений (baffled, blank, distracted, dizzy, perplexed, raddled), одурманений, замріяний (faraway, moony, mused), приголомшений (aghast, dumbfounded, mused, perplexed, shocked, spellbound, thunderstruck). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "bemused": bemusedly. (additional references)
	Words ending with "bemused": unbemused. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Bemused" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bemasked, bemusw, Benasser, Benazet, Benissad, besume, Biomuse, bonussed. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "bemused" (pronounced bumyuw"zd)
6	-u m y uw" z d	amused.
5	-m y uw" z d	mused.
4	-y uw" z d	abused, accused, confused, defused, diffused, disabused, excused, fused, infused, misused, overused, recused, refused, suffused, transfused, underused, unused, used.
3	-uw" z d	bruised, cruised, enthused, oozed, perused, reused.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-m-s-u"
	-1 letter: bemuse, embeds.
	-2 letters: bused, deems, demes, dumbs, embed, emeus, meeds, mused, sebum, sedum, suede.
	-3 letters: beds, bedu, bees, buds, bums, debs, deem, dees, deme, dubs, dues, dumb, emes, emeu, emus, meed, muds, muse, seed, seem, seme, sued, used.
	-4 letters: bed, bee, bud, bum, bus, deb, dee, dub, due, eds, eme, ems, emu, med, mud.
	Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-m-s-u"
	+1 letter: besmudge.
	+2 letters: bemuddles, bemusedly, besmudged, besmudges, besmutted, slumbered, submerged, submersed, unbemused.
	+3 letters: burdensome, disembogue, dumbnesses, reimbursed.
	+4 letters: disembogued, disembogues, disencumber, drumbeaters, resubmitted, subemployed, tumbleweeds, unassembled, unblemished.
	+5 letters: debouchments, disbursement, disencumbers, subepidermal.
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