AT SEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does at sea mean? 

• AT SEA (adjective)
  The adjective AT SEA has 1 sense:

1. perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment

  Familiarity information: AT SEA used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AT SEA (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment

Synonyms:

at sea; baffled; befuddled; bemused; bewildered; confounded; confused; lost; mazed; mixed-up

Context example:

she felt lost on the first day of school

Similar:

perplexed (full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment)

 Context examples 

On ships at sea he had always been in the forecastle, the steerage, or in the black depths of the coal-hold, passing coal.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It is easy for us who travel into remote countries, which are seldom visited by Englishmen or other Europeans, to form descriptions of wonderful animals both at sea and land.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A new study has found that the larvae of haddock, a commercially important type of cod, have a magnetic compass to find their way at sea.

(North Atlantic haddock use magnetic compass to guide them, National Science Foundation)

It is evident that the Czarina Catherine is still at sea, hastening on her way to Varna.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Then we’ll drop him over without any palavering, unless our clerical-looking castaway has the burial service at sea by heart.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“Miss Price has a brother at sea,” said Edmund, “whose excellence as a correspondent makes her think you too severe upon us.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Barramundi or Asian sea bass, an important commercial fish, are born at sea and migrate as juveniles and adults to fresh, protected areas.

(Fish larvae lose their way to safety in acidified oceans, SciDev.Net)

I seen a thing or two at sea, I have.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

This villain had thought that I would be at sea before the news could reach me, and that I should be lost for years in Africa.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They foundered at sea, and were never heard of more, and I say that the crews of them were murdered men.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)