befuddled

English

Verb

befuddled

1. simple past and past participle of befuddle

Adjective

befuddled (comparative more befuddled, superlative most befuddled)

1. confused or perplexed
   • 2023 October 18, Murtada Elfadl, “Killers Of The Flower Moon review: Martin Scorsese's uniquely American tragedy”, in AV Club‎^[1]:

     Rather smartly, DiCaprio chooses a character he hasn’t played before; a befuddled and dumb man who keeps getting himself in trouble.

2. drunk

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:drunk

Derived terms

• befuddledness
• confuddled
• unbefuddled

 

Translations

confused or perplexed

• Dutch: stomverbaasd (nl), perplex (nl), in de war
• German: verwirrt (de), desorientiert

drunk

• Dutch: verdoofd (nl), dronken (nl), zat (nl) (Flemish)
• German: angetrunken (de), betrunken (de)