Bemuse vs Conundrum - What's the difference?
bemuse | conundrum |
To confuse or bewilder.
* 1735' A parson much '''be-mus'd in beer. — Alexander Pope, ''Satires of Dr. Donne versified
* 1771' [With] fairy tales '''bemused the shepherd lies. — James Foot, ''Penseroso
* 1847' The bad metaphysics with which they '''bemuse themselves. — Hugh Miller, ''First Impressions of England and its people
(archaic, humorous) To devote to the Muses.
* 1705' When those incorrigible things, Poets, are once irrecoverably '''Be-mus'd . — Alexander Pope, ''Letters
A difficult question or riddle, especially one using a play on words in the answer.
* 1816 ,
A difficult choice or decision that must be made.
* 2004 , ,
As a verb bemuse
is to confuse or bewilder.As a noun conundrum is
a difficult question or riddle, especially one using a play on words in the answer.bemuse
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Verb
(bemus)conundrum
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Noun
(en-noun)- “Why should I understand that, or anything else?” asked the girl. “Don’t bother my head by asking conundrums , I beg of you. Just let me discover myself in my own way.”
statement read before being sentenced to five months in prison
- And while I am more concerned about the well-being of others than for myself, more hurt for them and for their losses than for my own, more worried for their futures than for the future of Martha Stewart the person, you are faced with a conundrum , a problem of monumental, to me, proportions.