bemused

/bɪˈmjuːzd/

adj 2

Collocations

VERBS

be, look, seem, sound | become

ADV

totally

The tourists were totally bemused when the train suddenly changed direction without any announcement.

a bit, faintly, a little, quite, rather, slightly, somewhat

She looked rather bemused when I explained the rules of the complicated board game.

PREP

Sarah looked bemused by the strange questions her younger brother kept asking during dinner.

adj

deeply thoughtful; preoccupied

perplexed and bewildered

That left Bradly as bemused as ever, for it posed another incomprehensibility: Why had Podson walked here?

adjective — perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements

adjective — deeply absorbed in thought

That left Bradly as bemused as ever, for it posed another incomprehensibility: Why had Podson walked here?

Wiktionary

But anon their bemused wits awoke to the nature of the deed which was like to be done upon the moorlands.

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His answer bemused us all.

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