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Befuddled   /bɪfˈədəld/   Listen
Befuddled

adjective
1.
Stupefied by alcoholic drink.  Synonym: befogged.  "A mind befogged with drink"
2.
Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment.  Synonyms: at sea, baffled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up.  "Bewildered and confused" , "A cloudy and confounded philosopher" , "Just a mixed-up kid" , "She felt lost on the first day of school"
3.
Confused and vague; used especially of thinking.  Synonyms: addled, muddled, muzzy, woolly, woolly-headed, wooly, wooly-minded.  "Your addled little brain" , "Woolly thinking" , "Woolly-headed ideas"





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"Befuddled" Quotes from Famous Books



... "In the half-befuddled condition in which I then was, the idea quickly took possession of my stupid imagination. I rode along, however, without coming to any fixed determination, till I reached Jonathan Perry's toll-gate. I exchanged a few words with him, and then resumed my journey. Suddenly it flashed ...
— The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales • John Charles Dent
... of laws that befuddled White Fang and often brought him into disgrace. He had to learn that he must not touch the chickens that belonged to other gods. Then there were cats, and rabbits, and turkeys; all these he must let alone. In fact, when he had but partly learned the law, his impression ...
— White Fang • Jack London


Words linked to "Befuddled" :   perplexed


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