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单词 befuddled
释义

befuddled

adjective

be·​fud·​dled bi-ˈfə-dᵊld How to pronounce befuddled (audio)
bē-
: utterly confused or puzzled : deeply perplexed
… somebody may be so befuddled and self-destructive as to miss the point entirely. Anne B. Fisher
I just asked her to please talk to my agent, who understood what was going on, not me. … frankly, I didn't know what to do, or whomto believe. I was totally befuddled. John Nichols

Synonyms

  • addle
  • addled
  • addlepated
  • bedeviled
  • befogged
  • bemused
  • bewildered
  • bushed [chiefly Australian]
  • confounded
  • confused
  • dazed
  • distracted
  • dizzy
  • dopey
  • dopy
  • fogged
  • mixed-up
  • muddleheaded
  • muzzy
  • pixilated
  • pixillated
  • punch-drunk
  • punchy
  • raddled
  • shell-shocked
  • silly
  • slaphappy
  • spaced-out
  • spaced
  • spacey
  • spacy
  • stunned
  • stupefied
  • zonked
  • zonked-out
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Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Hanks replied, appearing a bit befuddled about the situation. Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2022 Perhaps that global pecking order is part of the reason why U.S. skaters seemed more befuddled and sad than aggrieved or critical of the penalty decision. Tom Schad, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2022 The military goes on high alert; the intelligence services spring into befuddled action. Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021 Oprah prodded, again acting as proxy for the befuddled American viewer. Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021 Parents, many of whom identify as liberals, are left befuddled and angry. Paymon Rouhanifard, Time, 12 Apr. 2021 The film is a bit of a lightning rod in the Nolan canon, one that left many viewers a bit befuddled at the complexity, while one of the director’s earlier films (like 2010’s Inception) is a much more palatable and visually trippy experience. Andy Meek, BGR, 25 Mar. 2021 It’s one of Hopkins’s finest performances, by turns wrathful and befuddled, helpless and defiant. Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2021 His reverse jam opened the scoring for Detroit, then swished a face-up jumper over a befuddled Jason Collins. Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, 20 May 2020 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1838, in the meaning defined above

befuddled 1 of 2

adjective

as in bewildered
suffering from mental confusion the perennially befuddled professor was always forgetting where she'd left her glasses

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • bewildered
  • confused
  • dazed
  • stunned
  • distracted
  • dizzy
  • bemused
  • stupefied
  • silly
  • bedeviled
  • confounded
  • muddleheaded
  • fogged
  • addled
  • dopey
  • at sea
  • raddled
  • befogged
  • slaphappy
  • zonked
  • addlepated
  • pixilated
  • spacey
  • addle
  • muzzy
  • punchy
  • shell-shocked
  • punch-drunk
  • unconscious
  • pixillated
  • mixed-up
  • bushed
  • zonked-out
  • dopy
  • out of it
  • spaced
  • spacy
  • spaced-out
  • senseless

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • clearheaded
  • conscious
  • alert

befuddled

2 of 2

verb

past tense of befuddle
as in baffled
to throw into a state of mental uncertainty most of the applicants were befuddled by the wording of one of the questions on the driving test

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • baffled
  • bewildered
  • puzzled
  • perplexed
  • confused
  • flummoxed
  • bemused
  • mystified
  • stunned
  • discombobulated
  • embarrassed
  • disoriented
  • flustered
  • vexed
  • confounded
  • bamboozled
  • muddled
  • fuddled
  • disturbed
  • addled
  • rattled
  • bothered
  • upset
  • befogged
  • posed
  • mazed
  • muddied
  • foxed
  • unsettled
  • buffaloed
  • graveled
  • nonplussed
  • got
  • stumped
  • beat
  • disconcerted
  • discomfited
  • vext
  • stuck
  • agitated
  • abashed
  • mortified
  • dismayed
  • distressed
  • blew one's mind
  • perturbed
  • chagrined
  • disquieted
  • gravelled
  • went to one's head
  • fazed
  • discomforted
  • unhinged
  • nonplused
  • misled
  • deluded
  • misguided
  • duped
  • discomposed
  • fooled
  • deceived
  • beguiled
  • weirded out
  • discountenanced
  • tricked
  • hoodwinked
  • humbugged
  • gulled
  • strung along
  • cozened
  • snowed
  • took in
  • hoaxed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • satisfied
  • assured
  • informed
  • reassured
  • enlightened
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