Skip to main content
A state of being truly confuzzled, bewildered, or just plain confused.

Also, having feelings of wry amusement
The specifics of the quantum physics lecture bemused him.

His unique manner of speaking bemused her.

bemused by buffyfan_5 March 31, 2008
Related Words
A state of total confusion and inability to understand or comprehend something.

Conflicting information or action from a source than anticipated.

WTF just happened...
I was first told one thing and then totally bemused when the opposite happened.
Bemused by Ace4kingAce March 7, 2019
When you're both baffled and amused at the same time.
I was bafused to hear how much cannabis the police are wasting their time seizing.
Bafused by Pedro85 September 23, 2014
Boringly amused
“I was bemused at the tv program; I’m bemusement that the person over the is seeking attention; bemusing date/year”
I’ve been using this word since before early 1970s, Australia, Melbourne.
Bemused by BittemYum December 16, 2019
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
Word of the Day on May 31, 2026
Add a tablespoon of jarlic to two teaspoons of butter and spread it in bread to make garlic bread
Jarlic by YSAC fanboy June 6, 2020
Word of the Day on May 30, 2026