What does befuddled mean?
Befuddled means simple past and past participle of befuddle.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
simple past and past participle of befuddle.
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.
Gracious, man, are you so befuddled in your old books that you don't see what's going on round you?
Rather smartly, DiCaprio chooses a character he hasn’t played before; a befuddled and dumb man who keeps getting himself in trouble.
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?”
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.
Use befuddled when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Befuddled means simple past and past participle of befuddle.
Common synonyms include addle-pated, addled, addlepated, at a loss.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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