befuddled en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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Confused or perplexed.
Gracious, man, are you so befuddled in your old books that you don't see what's going on round you?
1919, Christopher Morley, “(please specify the page)”, in The Haunted Bookshop, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC:But Yancey Goree was not thinking of feuds. His befuddled brain was hopelessly attacking the problem of the future maintenance of himself and his favourite follies.
1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “A Blackjack Bargainer”, in Whirligigs:Rather smartly, DiCaprio chooses a character he hasn’t played before; a befuddled and dumb man who keeps getting himself in trouble.
2023 October 18, Murtada Elfadl, “Killers Of The Flower Moon review: Martin Scorsese's uniquely American tragedy”, in AV Club:In my favorite Meta A.I. ad, a woman tells her boyfriend that she’s excited to have him meet her parents — before impishly mentioning that her father is a thermodynamicist at NASA. The befuddled boyfriend rushes home, phone in hand. “Hey Meta,” he asks. “What the heck is a thermodynamicist?”
2025 June 25, Ismail Muhammad, “Why Does Every Commercial for A.I. Think You’re a Moron?”, in The New York Times Magazine, →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2025:
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His head rested upon his two hands, as if he were befuddled with wine, but at the harsh sound of the snapping bolts he raised his face and looked angrily around him.
1905–1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], published January 1906, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| more befuddled | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most befuddled | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
befuddledness · confuddled · unbefuddled
Synonyms
wazzed · hazed · out of it · budgy · lashed · stumped · cup-shotten · half cut · drunk as a piper · blocked · polluted · baffled · sloppy drunk · faced · wellied · bingoed · a sheet in the wind's eye · oiled up · binned · cunted · tuned · confused · have the sun in one's eyes · crocked · snuffy · stewed · twatfaced · overcome · bevvied · bungalowed · spiffed · ratfaced · juiced · withered · on the ran tan · in one's altitudes · yblent · zoned · blind drunk · out of one's box · aled up · thrown · lubricated · off one's tits · gee-eyed · corned · slammed · befuddled · skunked · sauced up · perplexed · bungfu · fluttered · potshot · addlepated · shickered · glorious · a sheet in the wind · kaylied · hooted · drunk · pie-eyed · plastered · scuttered · blitzed · ossified · ginned · hoovered · at a loss · canned · fluthered · wet · bibacious · how came you so · fuckfaced · loaded · drunked up · gattered · boozy · spanceled · schnockered · nappy · snockered · flush · misled · all mops and brooms · snookered · out to lunch · addle-pated · looped · frosted · strut · at sixes and sevens · pickled · top-heavy · clobbered · mortalled · not with it · in the drink · toping · cocked · elephant's trunk · kettled · overtaken · legless · splashed · scammered · jarred · shicker · sloshed · soshed · mabok · bollocksed · muddled · half lit · mystified · drunken · dazzled · plowed · high as a Georgia pine · slizzard · screwed · hosed · arseholed · tanked · stymied · stoated · stinking · liquored up · disguised · ploughed · sauced · lubed up · spongy · slarmied · lathered · gassed · potted · rolling · paralytic · zorched · quisby · fap · wazzocked · out of one's head · three sheets in the wind · smashed · Oliver Twist · toasted · groggified · groggy · MWI · shellacked · tight as a tick · nonplussed · out of sight · bedrunken · flooey · raddled · langered · maggoted · fuzzy-headed · muzzy · Brahms · muzzy · Oliver · floored · sodden · worse for liquor · destroyed · langers · cockeyed · tipsy · hammered · besotten · sprung · Mozart and Liszt · cup-shot · kisky · wastey · crapulous · half seas over · blasted · shedded · sozzled · burlin' · off one's box · parlatic · speechless · mad with it · befuddled · puzzled · beliquored · stotious · feeling no pain · trashed · sewed up · muggy · bombed · flustered · messed up · addled · mullered · twisted · larruped · soused · ripped · loopy · cut · gished · sozzly · full · blewed · in the bag · flabagasted · bladdered · ebriose · fershnickered · zotzed · liquory · minussed · insober · discombobulated · wrecked · elephant's · in one's cups · blootered · puggled · blottoed · medicated · blue · rubbered · tight · loose · four sheets in the wind · fried · off one's head · nimptopsical · munted · lash · lost for words · Adrian Quist · hooched up · snozzled · Brahms and Liszt · flushed · primed · soaken · fuzzy-minded · high as a kite · oiled · up a tree · well-oiled · spaced out · tanked up · temulentive · bewildered · sotted · half polluted · gesuip · jaked · tired and emotional · disconcerted · obliviated · maudlin · ripe · lit · lubed · dumbfounded · inebriated · bibulous · at a loss for words · pixilated · zonked · top-heavy with drink · woozy · obfuscated · dead drunk · adrip · steamboats · whittled · punch-drunk · swacked · flabbergasted · impaired · have drink taken · newted · squiffed · worse for wear · fou · mashed · bottled · besotted · honkers · inebriate · in liquor · fuckered up · razzled · lamped · mixed up · confuzzled · flabbergastered · pounded · inebrious · schloshed · flustered · fuddled · out of one's face · stinko · insobrietous · dazed · inter pocula · elevated · muddled · at sea · zooted · shitty · hog-whimpering · mortal · out of it · throwed · monged · three sheets to the wind · fresh · sottish · tippled · stonkered · tilted · temulent · wobbly · ebriated · stoned · high · bosky · blind · souped-up · spannered · overrefreshed · maggot · flummoxed · jumbled · fluted · juiced up · lushed
Translations (10)
nl perplex (confused or perplexed) · de desorientiert (confused or perplexed) · de angetrunken (drunk) · nl verdoofd (drunk) · nl stomverbaasd (confused or perplexed) · nl in de war (confused or perplexed) · nl dronken (drunk) · de verwirrt (confused or perplexed) · de betrunken (drunk) · nl zat (drunk)