vverb.emotioncause to be confused emotionallySynset:bemuse bewilder discombobulate throw
Derivationally Related Form:discombobulationbemusement
Hypernyms:discomfit discompose disconcert untune upset
Inherited Hypernyms:bewilderupsetarousemake
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s somebody | Something ---s somebody | The performance is likely to --- Sue (apply to: bewilder, throw) | The bad news will --- him (apply to: bewilder, throw, discombobulate, bemuse) | The good news will --- her (apply to: bewilder, throw, discombobulate, bemuse)
adj satadj.alldeeply absorbed in thoughtSynset:lost preoccupied
Examples:- as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class
- lost in thought
- a preoccupied frown
Antonyms:thoughtless
Derivationally Related Form:preoccupancy
Inherited Hypernyms:bemused
Similar to:thoughtful
adj satadj.allperplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewildermentSynset:at sea baffled befuddled bewildered confounded confused lost mazed mixed-up
Examples:- 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
Antonyms:unperplexed
Derivationally Related Form:confusedness
Inherited Hypernyms:baffled
Similar to:perplexed