Bemusement is the feeling that you have when you are puzzled or confused by something.
A look of bemusement spread across their faces.
Synonyms: puzzlement, surprise, confusion, uncertainty More Synonyms of bemusement
Examples of 'bemusement' in a sentence
bemusement
The outburst caused some bemusement, because at least three of his opponents are frontline politicians.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The billboards advertising it that towered over the slums of Mumbai were met with bemusement and anger.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Others expressed painful bemusement about how this could have happened to the healthy and successful young man standing beside her in recent photographs.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Yet this same group is expressing bemusement at the uproar in Britain and across the world caused by their plans to bring press regulation under statutory control.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
(noun)
A look of bemusement mixed with alarm spread across their faces.
Synonyms
puzzlement
He looked at me in puzzlement.
surprise
To my surprise I am in a room where I see one of my mother's sisters.
confusion
Omissions in my recent article may have caused some confusion.
uncertainty
The magazine ignores all the uncertainties students currently face.
amazement
I stared at her in amazement.
questioning
bewilderment
He shook his head in bewilderment.
perplexity
There was utter perplexity in both their expressions.
bafflement
mystification
stupefaction
befuddlement
Additional synonyms
in the sense of amazement
I stared at her in amazement.
Synonyms
astonishment,
surprise,
wonder,
shock,
confusion,
admiration,
awe,
marvel,
bewilderment,
wonderment,
perplexity,
stupefaction
in the sense of bewilderment
He shook his head in bewilderment.
Synonyms
confusion,
puzzlement,
disorientation,
perplexity,
bemusement,
mystification,
befuddlement
in the sense of confusion
Definition
bewilderment
Omissions in my recent article may have caused some confusion.