Definitions for bemused

bemused be·mused

Spelling: [bih-myoozd]
IPA: /bɪˈmyuzd/

Bemused is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 137 anagrams from letters in bemused (bdeemsu).

Definitions for bemused

adjective

  1. bewildered or confused:
  2. lost in thought; preoccupied.
  3. mildly amused, especially in a detached way.

verb (used with object)

  1. to bewilder or confuse.
  2. to preoccupy; engross.
  3. to cause to be mildly amused, especially in a detached way:

Origin of bemused

First recorded in 1695-1705; bemuse + -ed2

Examples for bemused

bemused, two journalists behind me wondered aloud “what this guy is doing here.”

Some folks watch Bieber's challenges with bemused interest, others with disgust, and others with genuine concern.

A bemused line reading sneaks in when you are anticipating a hammy hard sell.

Messina would introduce himself to bemused staffers and ask them to visit his office for a second or two.

This poor old chap is ill and bemused by his rough handling.

(I have forgiven), said David in Hebrew, and laughed at the man's bemused visage.

Still Andre-Louis continued to stand there, looking on as if bemused.

This note, necessarily so broken and bemused, must reach its useless end.

But the prevailing emotion that day, even among us awardees, was a bemused sense of boredom, restlessness and insatiability.

Nor was he so bemused by fear as not to reflect that, whatever Flavia asked, Asgill would do.

Word Value for bemused
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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