bemused
bih-MYOOZDadjMeaning puzzled and confused
Memory hook BE-MUSED: not AMUSED, CONFUSED. Uncle Sven turns the new remote over and over, staring at its forty buttons; he is not amused, just confused: bemused.
The tourists looked bemused by the street signs written in three languages.
In context Kai stared at the rules for the new board game, bemused by all forty of them, and finally went back to his book.
Similar puzzled, bewildered, perplexed, baffled
Opposite clearheaded, unconfused