What is another word for befuddled?
1222 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ bɪfˈʌdə͡ld], [ bɪfˈʌdəld], [ b_ɪ_f_ˈʌ_d_əl_d]
The word "befuddled" refers to a state of confusion or bewilderment. There are several synonyms for the word, such as "perplexed," "confounded," "dazed," "disoriented," "muddled," "flustered," and "bewildered." These words all convey a similar meaning, but with slight variations. "Perplexed" often implies a mental struggle to understand something, while "confounded" suggests being completely puzzled or at a loss. "Dazed" and "disoriented" imply a physical or mental disorientation, while "muddled" suggests a lack of clarity or coherence. "Flustered" implies agitation or nervousness, while "bewildered" suggests a complete sense of confusion. Regardless of which synonym is used, the sense of being befuddled implies a sense of loss or confusion.
Synonyms for Befuddled:
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adj.
• addled • confused- at a loss ,
- at sixes and sevens ,
- come apart ,
- not with it ,
- shot to pieces ,
- thrown off balance ,
- unscrewed ,
- dumbfounded ,
- glassy-eyed ,
- mixed up ,
- out to lunch ,
- screwy .
- Absent-minded ,
- Disregardful ,
- Ignoring ,
- absent ,
- aloof ,
- detached ,
- disinterested ,
- distracted ,
- dreamy ,
- faraway ,
- heedless ,
- inadvertent ,
- inattentive ,
- napping ,
- negligent ,
- oblivious ,
- preoccupied ,
- thoughtless ,
- unconcerned ,
- unconscious ,
- unheedful ,
- uninterested ,
- unmindful ,
- wandering .
- drunk as a skunk ,
- half-seas over ,
- high as a kite ,
- in one's cups ,
- Half seas over ,
- be sotted ,
- be-sotted ,
- drunk as skunk ,
- halfseas over ,
- high as kite ,
- in cups ,
- in one cups ,
- in ones cups ,
- more inebriate ,
- most inebriate .
- awe struck ,
- be wildered ,
- be-wildered ,
- dis concerted ,
- dis-concerted ,
- in dither ,
- more agape ,
- more appalled ,
- more astonished ,
- more astounded ,
- more awe struck ,
- more awe-struck ,
- more awed ,
- more awestruck ,
- more baffled ,
- more dazzled ,
- more flabbergasted ,
- more floored ,
- more flustered ,
- more mystified ,
- more staggered ,
- most agape ,
- most appalled ,
- most astonished ,
- most astounded ,
- most awe struck ,
- most awe-struck ,
- most awed ,
- most awestruck ,
- most baffled ,
- most dazzled ,
- most flabbergasted ,
- most floored ,
- most flustered ,
- most mystified ,
- most staggered ,
- speechless ,
- sur prised ,
- sur-prised .
- in sipid ,
- in-sipid ,
- more cornball ,
- more syrupy ,
- most cornball ,
- most syrupy ,
- mushy ,
- schmaltzy ,
- slusher ,
- slushest ,
- soap ,
- soapest ,
- tear jerking ,
- tearful ,
- tearjerking .
- dis arranged ,
- dis arrayed ,
- dis ordered ,
- dis orderly ,
- dis-arranged ,
- dis-arrayed ,
- dis-ordered ,
- dis-orderly ,
- in disarray ,
- more blurred ,
- more disarranged ,
- more disarrayed ,
- more scrambled ,
- most disarranged ,
- most disarrayed ,
- most scrambled ,
- topsy turvy ,
- topsyturvy ,
- un tidier ,
- un tidiest ,
- un tidy ,
- un-tidier ,
- un-tidiest ,
- un-tidy .
Other synonyms:
Other relevant words:
- 6 ,
- abrupt ,
- absentminded ,
- abstracted ,
- accidental ,
- acknowledge ,
- acquire ,
- act ,
- act as ,
- add up ,
- admixture ,
- aghast ,
- agitation ,
- aim ,
- airheaded ,
- alarm ,
- alienated ,
- aliveness ,
- all in ,
- amalgamate ,
- amaze ,
- amount ,
- anguished ,
- animation ,
- anomic ,
- anserine ,
- appalled ,
- approximate ,
- arrest ,
- arrive ,
- artificial ,
- asleep ,
- astonied ,
- astonishing ,
- astounding ,
- astuteness ,
- atomic number 49 ,
- awed ,
- awestricken ,
- baffle board ,
- bafflement ,
- bang ,
- bat ,
- bathetic ,
- be intimate ,
- beat ,
- beatify ,
- becloud ,
- become ,
- bed ,
- bedaze ,
- bedazzle ,
- bedevil ,
- bedlam ,
- bedraggled ,
- befog ,
- befuddle ,
- befuddled ,
- befuddlement ,
- beget ,
- begin ,
- beguilement ,
- bemuse ,
- bemusement ,
- benumb ,
- berth ,
- bet ,
- bewilderment ,
- bibulous ,
- bid ,
- bilk ,
- billet ,
- biography ,
- birl ,
- blank space ,
- blear ,
- blear-eyed ,
- bleary-eyed ,
- blend ,
- blind drunk ,
- blotto ,
- blunt ,
- body politic ,
- boiled ,
- bonk ,
- booze ,
- boozy ,
- bowl over ,
- brain-teaser ,
- brainwave ,
- break ,
- bring ,
- bring forth ,
- broken in ,
- broken-down ,
- brumous ,
- bugger off ,
- busted ,
- buzz off ,
- caper ,
- captain hicks ,
- capture ,
- carefree ,
- careworn ,
- cark ,
- catch ,
- cause ,
- chickenhearted ,
- child's play ,
- closed book ,
- cloud ,
- cloud-covered ,
- cloying ,
- clutter ,
- coalesce ,
- cockeyed ,
- cognise ,
- cognize ,
- combine ,
- come in ,
- come out ,
- come up ,
- commence ,
- commingle ,
- commit ,
- commix ,
- commixture ,
- commonwealth ,
- commotion ,
- complicate ,
- conflate ,
- confound ,
- confuse ,
- confusedness ,
- confusing ,
- conjecture ,
- conk ,
- contract ,
- convey ,
- convolution ,
- convulsion ,
- cornmeal mush ,
- country ,
- crack ,
- crocked ,
- cross ,
- crushed ,
- crybaby ,
- cryptic ,
- cryptical ,
- cum ,
- dally ,
- dart ,
- dazzle ,
- dead ,
- dead reckoning ,
- decrepit ,
- deep ,
- deepness ,
- defeat ,
- defeated ,
- degage ,
- department of state ,
- departure ,
- deprivation ,
- derangement ,
- derelict ,
- derive ,
- descend ,
- desegregate ,
- develop ,
- devil-may-care ,
- diddle ,
- diffuse ,
- dilapidated ,
- dim ,
- direct ,
- disappointed ,
- discombobulation ,
- discomfit ,
- discomfited ,
- discompose ,
- disconcert ,
- dishevel ,
- dislocated ,
- dismay ,
- dismayed ,
- disorderliness ,
- disorderly ,
- disorganised ,
- disorient ,
- disquiet ,
- disquieted ,
- disruption ,
- distant ,
- distract ,
- distrait ,
- distressed ,
- disturb ,
- disturbance ,
- disturbed ,
- disunited ,
- do it ,
- dogsled ,
- dolorous ,
- dolourous ,
- doomed ,
- doped ,
- dopy ,
- dos ,
- drag ,
- drag in ,
- drama ,
- dramatic play ,
- draw ,
- drawn ,
- drink ,
- drippy ,
- drive ,
- drugged ,
- drunkard ,
- dubious ,
- dubitable ,
- dull ,
- dulled ,
- dumb ,
- dumbfound ,
- dumbstricken ,
- dumbstruck ,
- dumfounded ,
- easy lay ,
- eddy ,
- eff ,
- ejaculate ,
- embroil ,
- encounter ,
- engender ,
- enigmatical ,
- entangle ,
- err ,
- erratic ,
- error ,
- estimate ,
- exalt ,
- excitement ,
- exhilarate ,
- exit ,
- experience ,
- expiration ,
- explore ,
- express ,
- faint-hearted ,
- fainthearted ,
- fall ,
- fall apart ,
- fallible ,
- far-off ,
- fare ,
- father ,
- fault ,
- featherbrained ,
- feeble ,
- fermentation ,
- fermenting ,
- fetch ,
- fiddle ,
- find ,
- fix ,
- flabbergast ,
- flap ,
- flapping ,
- fleet ,
- flicker ,
- fling ,
- flirt ,
- flit ,
- flitter ,
- fluttering ,
- flux ,
- flyaway ,
- fogginess ,
- foil ,
- foiled ,
- follow ,
- foolish ,
- forgetful ,
- fox ,
- fragmented ,
- frail ,
- free ,
- free rein ,
- freewheeling ,
- fresh ,
- fretsaw ,
- frolic ,
- frustrate ,
- fuck ,
- fuck off ,
- fun ,
- fuse ,
- fuss ,
- fuzzed ,
- gambling ,
- gambol ,
- gaming ,
- gauge ,
- generate ,
- get along ,
- get down ,
- get it on ,
- get laid ,
- get over ,
- get the best ,
- get the better of ,
- get under one's skin ,
- giddiness ,
- go ,
- going ,
- gone ,
- goofy ,
- goop ,
- gooselike ,
- goosey ,
- goosy ,
- grade ,
- gravel ,
- grievous bodily harm ,
- grow ,
- guessing ,
- guesswork ,
- gyrate ,
- hag-ridden ,
- haggard ,
- hagridden ,
- hail ,
- half a dozen ,
- half dozen ,
- half-dozen ,
- happy-go-lucky ,
- harum-scarum ,
- haunted ,
- have ,
- have a go at it ,
- have intercourse ,
- have it away ,
- have it off ,
- have sex ,
- have the best ,
- hazard ,
- haze ,
- haze over ,
- head over heels ,
- head-in-the-clouds ,
- heady ,
- heels over head ,
- helter-skelter ,
- hexad ,
- higgledy-piggledy ,
- hit it up ,
- hit the bottle ,
- hokey ,
- hole ,
- home ,
- honeyed ,
- honied ,
- hoo-ha ,
- hoo-hah ,
- hot and bothered ,
- hugger-mugger ,
- hullabaloo ,
- humbled ,
- humiliated ,
- hump ,
- hunt ,
- hunting ,
- hurly burly ,
- hypothesis ,
- identify ,
- imagine ,
- imbue ,
- immix ,
- imperfect ,
- impertinent ,
- implore ,
- impoverished ,
- impudent ,
- in great confusion ,
- in question ,
- incapacitated ,
- inch ,
- incomprehensible ,
- incur ,
- ind. ,
- indiana ,
- indium ,
- induce ,
- infer ,
- infirm ,
- inscrutable ,
- insensible ,
- insight ,
- integrate ,
- intermixture ,
- interpenetrate ,
- intoxicate ,
- invest ,
- inward ,
- inwards ,
- isolated ,
- issue forth ,
- jam ,
- jazz ,
- jerky ,
- judge ,
- judicious ,
- jumble ,
- jutting ,
- kayoed ,
- kerfuffle ,
- kettle of fish ,
- kitschy ,
- knock over ,
- knocked out ,
- knot ,
- knowing ,
- ko'd ,
- lachrymose ,
- lackadaisical ,
- lacking ,
- land ,
- languid ,
- languorous ,
- lather ,
- lay ,
- let ,
- lie with ,
- lieu ,
- life history ,
- life sentence ,
- life story ,
- life-time ,
- lifespan ,
- lifetime ,
- light ,
- light-headed ,
- lightheaded ,
- lightheadedness ,
- lily-livered ,
- liquid ecstasy ,
- live ,
- liveliness ,
- living ,
- loaded ,
- localise ,
- localize ,
- locate ,
- logy ,
- look ,
- look for ,
- lookup ,
- looseness ,
- love ,
- low ,
- make ,
- make for ,
- make love ,
- make out ,
- maneuver ,
- manoeuvre ,
- mare's nest ,
- master ,
- mat ,
- mawkish ,
- max ,
- mayhem ,
- maze ,
- meandering ,
- meet ,
- meld ,
- mental confusion ,
- merge ,
- mess ,
- metagrabolised ,
- metagrabolized ,
- metagrobolised ,
- metagrobolized ,
- mindless ,
- mingle ,
- mirky ,
- misapprehension ,
- misdirection ,
- misidentify ,
- missing ,
- mist ,
- misunderstanding ,
- mix in ,
- mix-up ,
- mixing ,
- mixture ,
- mobile ,
- model ,
- moony ,
- mother ,
- muddiness ,
- muddy ,
- murk ,
- murkiness ,
- murky ,
- mystery story ,
- mystic ,
- mystical ,
- mystifier ,
- mystifying ,
- narcotised ,
- nation ,
- nebulose ,
- nebulous ,
- neglectful ,
- nervous ,
- nomadic ,
- nonplus ,
- nonplused ,
- number ,
- obfuscation ,
- obscure ,
- obsessed ,
- obtain ,
- occult ,
- occur ,
- ocean ,
- off guard ,
- off her guard ,
- off his guard ,
- off one's guard ,
- off your guard ,
- off-guard ,
- offer ,
- office ,
- opine ,
- oracular ,
- order ,
- orphic ,
- out ,
- overbold ,
- overcast ,
- overpower ,
- overtake ,
- overthrow ,
- overturn ,
- overturned ,
- overwhelm ,
- palpitate ,
- pandemonium ,
- pass ,
- pass out ,
- passing ,
- pathetic ,
- pay back ,
- pay off ,
- penetrate ,
- peregrine ,
- period of play ,
- permeate ,
- perplexing ,
- personnel casualty ,
- perturb ,
- perturbation ,
- pervade ,
- piazza ,
- pickle ,
- pie-eyed ,
- pissed ,
- pixilated ,
- planetary ,
- playact ,
- playing period ,
- plaza ,
- ploughed ,
- poached ,
- point ,
- pose ,
- poseur ,
- posit ,
- position ,
- post ,
- pother ,
- potty ,
- poulet ,
- pray ,
- precarious ,
- preliminary prospectus ,
- premix ,
- pretend ,
- produce ,
- profoundness ,
- profundity ,
- projecting ,
- property ,
- protruding ,
- province ,
- puddingheaded ,
- puddle ,
- pulp ,
- purl ,
- put ,
- put forward ,
- queer ,
- quiver ,
- rambling ,
- range ,
- rank ,
- rate ,
- rattlebrained ,
- rattled ,
- rattlepated ,
- ravel ,
- receive ,
- reciprocating saw ,
- reckless ,
- reckon ,
- recognise ,
- recognize ,
- recreate ,
- red ,
- red ink ,
- reel ,
- regulate ,
- release ,
- relieved ,
- remove ,
- represent ,
- research ,
- rickety ,
- ridiculous ,
- rime ,
- ripped ,
- roleplay ,
- roll in the hay ,
- romp ,
- roving ,
- ruffle ,
- rugged ,
- rummy ,
- run ,
- saber saw ,
- saccharine ,
- sapless ,
- sappy ,
- sassy ,
- saucy ,
- say ,
- scatty ,
- schmalzy ,
- scoop ,
- scotch ,
- scram ,
- screen ,
- screw ,
- screw-loose ,
- scroll saw ,
- sealed ,
- seat ,
- seaward ,
- seawards ,
- secret ,
- seed ,
- seek ,
- semen ,
- seminal fluid ,
- send ,
- senseless ,
- sentimental ,
- separate ,
- separated ,
- sestet ,
- set ,
- set about ,
- set out ,
- set-apart ,
- sextet ,
- sextuplet ,
- shadowy ,
- shimmer ,
- shivering ,
- shock ,
- shoes ,
- shot ,
- shuffle ,
- sire ,
- sise ,
- site ,
- situation ,
- six-spot ,
- sixer ,
- skittish ,
- sleep together ,
- sleep with ,
- slicked ,
- slip ,
- slop ,
- slopped ,
- slushy ,
- smart ,
- smashed ,
- smoked herring ,
- smother ,
- snarl ,
- soak ,
- soaked ,
- solicit ,
- soppy ,
- sot ,
- sottish ,
- soupy ,
- sour ,
- souse ,
- sozzled ,
- space ,
- spacy ,
- speculation ,
- spiel ,
- spin around ,
- spin out ,
- spirit ,
- split ,
- split up ,
- spoil ,
- spooky ,
- sport ,
- spot ,
- sprightliness ,
- squiffy ,
- staccato ,
- start ,
- start out ,
- state department ,
- state of matter ,
- station ,
- stead ,
- stick ,
- sticker ,
- sticking ,
- sticking out ,
- stiff ,
- stilted ,
- stimulate ,
- stumper ,
- stun ,
- stupefy ,
- stupefying ,
- stupid ,
- stupor ,
- stuporous ,
- subdue ,
- submit ,
- suffer ,
- sunless ,
- suppose ,
- supposition ,
- surmisal ,
- surmise ,
- surmount ,
- sustain ,
- swage ,
- sweep ,
- sweep over ,
- sweep up ,
- swirl ,
- swoon ,
- swooning ,
- swordplay ,
- syncope ,
- tailspin ,
- take ,
- take on ,
- taken up ,
- tap ,
- target ,
- tatterdemalion ,
- teaser ,
- tell ,
- tempestuousness ,
- tentative ,
- think ,
- thrill ,
- throw ,
- thunderstruck ,
- thwart ,
- thwarted ,
- tickle pink ,
- tiddly ,
- tight ,
- timid ,
- tip over ,
- tizzy ,
- to-do ,
- topographic point ,
- topsy-turvily ,
- topsy-turvydom ,
- topsy-turvyness ,
- tortured ,
- total ,
- toughie ,
- tousle ,
- toy ,
- treacle ,
- treacly ,
- trembling ,
- trifle ,
- trouble ,
- tumble ,
- tumble-down ,
- tump over ,
- tumult ,
- turbid ,
- turbulency ,
- turn ,
- turn over ,
- turnover ,
- twiddle ,
- twirl ,
- twist ,
- twisting ,
- unaccented ,
- unaffectionate ,
- uncaring ,
- unconscious mind ,
- unexplainable ,
- unfirm ,
- unheeding ,
- unhinge ,
- unify ,
- uninvolved ,
- united states department of state ,
- unkept ,
- unlogical ,
- unordered ,
- unrest ,
- unretrievable ,
- unthinking ,
- untune ,
- upheaval ,
- upstage ,
- upturned ,
- vagabondage ,
- vague ,
- venture ,
- verse ,
- vertigo ,
- vex ,
- vi ,
- viscous ,
- volaille ,
- vortex ,
- wacky ,
- wager ,
- wanting ,
- washy ,
- watery ,
- waver ,
- weakly ,
- weeping ,
- welter ,
- wet ,
- whacky ,
- whelm ,
- whirl around ,
- whirlpool ,
- white-livered ,
- whodunit ,
- wimp ,
- winding ,
- wiped out ,
- wise to ,
- wispy ,
- wonky ,
- woolgathering ,
- woolly-haired ,
- wooly-haired ,
- work ,
- worn ,
- worn-out ,
- worried ,
- wreak ,
- yellow ,
- yellow-bellied ,
- zany ,
- zymolysis ,
- zymosis .
- Bamboozled ,
- Beclouded ,
- Bedazzled ,
- Boozed ,
- Crucified ,
- Dunned ,
- Feather-brained ,
- Feather-headed ,
- Flipped ,
- Flurried ,
- Fobbed ,
- Foxed ,
- Hurled ,
- Misted ,
- Numbed ,
- Obfuscated ,
- Obscured ,
- Punchy ,
- Raged ,
- Rattle-brained ,
- Reeling ,
- Staggered ,
- Stumped ,
- Switched ,
- Tricked ,
- addlebrained ,
- addled ,
- addleheaded ,
- addlepated ,
- amazed ,
- asea ,
- astonished ,
- astounded ,
- at sea ,
- baffled ,
- balked ,
- bedeviled ,
- befogged ,
- bemused ,
- benumbed ,
- besotted ,
- bewildered ,
- bleary ,
- blurred ,
- blurry ,
- bowled over ,
- clouded ,
- cloudy ,
- confounded ,
- confused ,
- confusional ,
- contrived ,
- daze ,
- dazed ,
- dazzled ,
- discombobulated ,
- disconcerted ,
- disjointed ,
- disordered ,
- disoriented ,
- dizzy ,
- dopey ,
- doubtful ,
- drunk ,
- empty-headed ,
- faint ,
- flabbergasted ,
- flighty ,
- flocculent ,
- floored ,
- flummoxed ,
- flustered ,
- fogged ,
- foggy ,
- frivolous ,
- frustrated ,
- fuddled ,
- fuzzy ,
- garbled ,
- giddy ,
- groggy ,
- hare-brained ,
- hazy ,
- helpless ,
- illogical ,
- in ,
- in a fog ,
- in a muddle ,
- in a trance ,
- inebriate ,
- inebriated ,
- intoxicated ,
- irretrievable ,
- jumbled ,
- lost ,
- maudlin ,
- mazed ,
- missed ,
- misty ,
- mixed-up ,
- muddle-headed ,
- muddled ,
- muddleheaded ,
- muzzy ,
- mystified ,
- narcotized ,
- nonplussed ,
- numb ,
- overcome ,
- overpowered ,
- perplexed ,
- perturbed ,
- potted ,
- projected ,
- punch-drunk ,
- puzzled ,
- puzzleheaded ,
- raddled ,
- scatterbrained ,
- shaky ,
- shell-shocked ,
- shocked ,
- silly ,
- slaphappy ,
- spaced-out ,
- spacey ,
- staggering ,
- startled ,
- stinko ,
- stunned ,
- stupefied ,
- surprised ,
- taken aback ,
- tormented ,
- unconnected ,
- unsteady ,
- upset ,
- weak ,
- weak-kneed ,
- without help ,
- wobbly ,
- woolly ,
- woolly-headed ,
- wooly ,
- wooly-minded ,
- woozy ,
- zonked ,
- zonked-out .
How to use "Befuddled" in context?
When we experience befuddlement, we are not capable of understanding what is going on. This can happen when there is too much going on at once and our brain cannot keep track of it. This can also happen when something is confusing or difficult to understand.
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