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Meaning of CONFUSED

Pronunciation:  kunfy'oozd

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 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently; "the flood of questions left her bewildered and confused"
  2. [adj]  lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts"
  3. [adj]  thrown into a state of disarray or confusion; "troops fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset"
  4. [adj]  having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity; "I frequently find myself disoriented when I come up out of the subway"; "the anesthetic left her completely disoriented"
  5. [adj]  perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment; "obviously bemused by his questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt lost on the first day of school"
 
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 Synonyms: addlebrained, addled, addlepated, at sea, baffled, befogged, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, broken, clouded, confounded, dazed, dazzled, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, disorganised, disorganized, disoriented, garbled, illogical, incoherent, lost, mazed, mixed-up, muddled, muddleheaded, muzzy, potty, puddingheaded, punch-drunk, scattered, silly, slaphappy, spaced-out, stunned, stupefied, stupid(p), trancelike, unconnected, unoriented, upset, woolly, woolly-headed, wooly, wooly-minded
 
 Antonyms: clearheaded, clear-thinking
 
 See Also: perplexed

 

 

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 Related Terms: abashed, abroad, adrift, afflicted, agitated, ajar, aleatoric, aleatory, ambiguous, amorphic, amorphous, anarchic, arsy-varsy, ass-backwards, astray, at a loss, at sea, baffled, baffling, baggy, balled up, balled-up, bashful, befuddled, bemused, beset, bewildered, blear, bleared, bleary, blobby, blurred, blurry, bollixed up, bothered, broad, Byzantine, cast down, chagrined, chance, chancy, chaotic, chapfallen, characterless, clashing, clueless, complex, complicated, conflicting, confounded, confusing, conscious, contradictory, convoluted, coy, crabbed, daedal, dark, dazed, demure, devious, dim, disarranged, discomfited, discomforted, discomposed, disconcerted, dismayed, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, disoriented, disquieted, distracted, distraught, distressed, disturbed, elaborate, embarrassed, embrangled, entangled, faint, featureless, feeble, filmy, flustered, fluttered, foggy, formless, fouled up, fussed, fuzzy, galley-west, general, grating, guessing, half-seen, half-visible, harsh, hazy, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hit-or-miss, hugger-mugger, hung up, ill at ease, ill-defined, implicated, imprecise, in a fix, in a jumble, in a maze, in a mess, in a pickle, in a pother, in a pucker, in a scrape, in a stew, in a sweat, in a swivet, in a tizzy, inaccurate, inarticulate, inchoate, incoherent, inconsistent, inconspicuous, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, inexact, inform, intricate, involuted, involved, jangling, jangly, jarring, jostling, jumbled, kaleidoscopic, knotted, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, lax, loose, lost, loused up, low-profile, lumpen, many-faceted, matted, mazed, mazy, meandering, merely glimpsed, messed up, messy, miscellaneous, misleading, misty, mixed up, mixed-up, mortified, motley, mousy, mucked up, muddled, multifarious, muzzy, mystified, mystifying, nondescript, nonplussed, nonspecific, not with it, obscure, off the track, orderless, out of countenance, out of focus, out of it, pale, perplexed, perplexing, perturbed, put off, put out, put-out, put-upon, puzzled, puzzling, ramified, random, rattled, roundabout, ruffled, scattered, screwed up, self-conscious, semivisible, shadowed forth, shadowy, shaken, shamefaced, shamefast, shapeless, shook, shuffled, shy, skimble-skamble, skittish, snafu, snarled, snarled up, stammering, stochastic, subtle, sweeping, tangled, tangly, timid, timorous, topsy-turvy, troubled, turned around, twisted, uncertain, unclear, uncomfortable, undefined, undestined, undetermined, uneasy, unordered, unorganized, unplain, unrecognizable, unsettled, unspecified, upset, upside-down, vague, veiled, warring, weak, without a clue
 

 

 

 

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