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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
befuddled
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Dawn looked a little befuddled.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even in my befuddled state I could see they meant trouble.
▪ If only he could keep his increasingly befuddled brain clear enough to squeeze out what he wanted.
▪ Tony Hopkins tries out an array of voices and manners - befuddled vagueness, booming ferocity. dangerous, smiling brusqueness.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
befuddled

befuddled \befuddled\ adj.

  1. dazed by alcoholic drink. the wino's poor befuddled mind

    Syn: stupefied.

  2. unclear in mind or intent; filled with bewilderment.

    Syn: at sea, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, mazed, mixed-up.

  3. confused and vague; used especially of thinking.

    Syn: addled, befogged, muddled, muzzy, unclear, woolly, wooly, woolly-headed, wooly-minded.

Wiktionary
befuddled

  1. 1 confused or perplexed 2 drunk v

  2. (en-past of: befuddle)

WordNet
befuddled

  1. adj. stupefied by alcoholic drink; "the wino's poor befuddled mind"; "a mind befogged with drink" [syn: befogged]

  2. perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment; "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" [syn: baffled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at sea]

  3. confused and vague; used especially of thinking; "muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain"; "woolly thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas" [syn: addled, muddled, muzzy, woolly, wooly, woolly-headed, wooly-minded]

Usage examples of "befuddled".

Stunned by the erotic Armageddon, Herbie teetered abjectly, miserably, totally befuddled.

His wife rolled onto her back and spent a befuddled ten seconds stretching open her sleep-caked eyes.

With no warning his eyes unfocused and started rolling around again, and as they did he lowered the gun, looking befuddled for a moment, and then scared.

They were still too magic befuddled, but we were afraid to leave them behind.

Blaine gave the area a befuddled inspection, and after a moment realized that there was a small pile of undisturbed belongings shoved up against a long-fallen tree, and a couple of sacks double-hung high off to the side.

Waiting, strangely dazed, she sat beside Druid, her hand pulsing with pain and her mind still too befuddled to hold a coherent thought—still unable to understand what had kept the storm door closed against her considerable efforts, or what could possibly have separated Sunny from both the run cable and her collar.

There was a translucent winged thing that looked like nothing so much as a vampire butterfly, horrific in aspect save for its decidedly befuddled expression.

From time to time all manner of objects could be seen hovering over his tree: intersecting rainbows, lambent sunshine, tropical downpours, the occasional isolated fragment of befuddled comet.

Either they had outdistanced it, or else Krasvin was still too befuddled or discouraged to mount any.

And there was enough sincerity in that question, in that whole clearly befuddled attitude mat she was immediately satisfied that he had come of his own initiative.

She shook her head slightly, looking and feeling as helplessly befuddled as he was.

Such was the effect of the wizard's sweet wine mat when the befuddled Peter awoke, he would have no memory of having ever been in the Imp-er-non.

She exchanged looks with her guards, who were obviously as befuddled as she.

They all started talking at once, most of them firing questions at Snuffer, who had no answers but, instead, looked as befuddled as they.