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confused

 
Adjective confused has 5 senses
  1. baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at sea - 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"
    Antonym: unperplexed (indirect, via perplexed)
  2. confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected - lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts"
    Antonym: coherent (indirect, via incoherent)
  3. confused, disoriented, lost - 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"
    Antonyms: oriented, orientated (indirect, via unoriented)
  4. broken, confused, disordered, upset - 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"
    Antonym: organized (indirect, via disorganized)
  5. confused - mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently; "the flood of questions left her bewildered and confused"
    Antonyms:
    clearheaded, clear-thinking, clear, unclouded
Verb confuse has 6 senses
  1. confuse, confound - mistake one thing for another; "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary"
    --1 is one way to mistake, misidentify
    Derived form: noun confusion5
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Somebody ----s something PP
  2. confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate - be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher"
    --2 is one way to be
    Derived form: noun confusion2
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
  3. confuse, flurry, disconcert, put off - cause to feel embarrassment; "The constant attention of the young man confused her"
    --3 is one way to embarrass, abash
    Derived form: noun confusion3
    Sample sentences:
    The bad news will confuse him
    The good news will confuse her
    The performance is likely to confuse Sue
  4. jumble, confuse, mix up - assemble without order or sense; "She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence"
    --4 is one way to assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together
    Derived form: noun confusion4
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  5. confuse - make unclear or incomprehensible; "The new tax return forms only confuse"
    --5 is one way to
    change, alter, modify
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
  6. confuse, blur, obscure, obnubilate - make unclear, indistinct, or blurred; "Her remarks confused the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intentions"
    --6 is one way to change, alter, modify
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
confurm confusability confusable confusably confuscated confuse confuse and antonym confuse with confused confused identity confused s confusedly confusedness confuses confusing confusingly confusion

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