Synonyms of befuddled

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adjective

as in bewildered

suffering from mental confusion

the perennially befuddled professor was always forgetting where she'd left her glasses

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bewildered
• dazed
• confused
• stunned
• distracted
• dizzy
• bemused
• silly
• stupefied
• out of it
• muddleheaded
• spaced
• fogged
• dopey
• confounded
• punch-drunk
• bedeviled
• addled
• shell-shocked
• mixed-up
• raddled
• at sea
• befogged
• pixilated
• dopy
• slaphappy
• punchy
• spacey
• addle
• unconscious
• muzzy
• pixillated
• zonked-out
• bushed
• addlepated
• zonked
• spacy
• spaced-out
• senseless

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• conscious
• clearheaded
• alert

• conscious
• clearheaded
• alert

befuddled

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verb

past tense of befuddle

as in puzzled

to throw into a state of mental uncertainty

most of the applicants were befuddled by the wording of one of the questions on the driving test

Synonyms & Similar Words

• puzzled
• baffled
• bewildered
• perplexed
• confused
• flummoxed
• mystified
• stunned
• bemused
• embarrassed
• disoriented
• flustered
• discombobulated
• vexed
• confounded
• bamboozled
• muddled
• fuddled
• disturbed
• rattled
• addled
• bothered
• posed
• mazed
• upset
• muddied
• befogged
• foxed
• buffaloed
• graveled
• gravelled
• unsettled
• got
• vext
• beat
• nonplussed
• stumped
• disconcerted
• stuck
• nonplused
• blew one's mind
• mortified
• discomfited
• agitated
• distressed
• abashed
• dismayed
• went to one's head
• perturbed
• disquieted
• chagrined
• fazed
• weirded out
• discomforted
• unhinged
• misled
• deluded
• misguided
• duped
• discomposed
• deceived
• discountenanced
• fooled
• beguiled
• tricked
• hoodwinked
• humbugged
• strung along
• gulled
• cozened
• snowed
• took in
• hoaxed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• satisfied
• assured
• informed
• reassured
• enlightened

• satisfied
• assured
• informed
• reassured
• enlightened