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Adjective confused has 5 senses

• confused(s = adj.all) at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, lost, mazed, mixed-up - 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"
Derived form noun confusedness₁

• confused(s = adj.all) 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"
• confused(s = adj.all) 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"
Derived form noun confusedness₁

• confused(s = adj.all) broken, 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"
• confused(a = adj.all) Array - mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently; "the flood of questions left her bewildered and confused"
Antonym: clearheaded
Derived form noun confusedness₁

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THESAURUS

confused

Byzantine, 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, 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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Obscurity

N obscurity, involution, hard words, ambiguity, unintelligibleness, vagueness &c, inexactness, what d'ye call 'em, darkness of meaning, obscure, crabbed, involved, confused.

Disorder

N disorder, derangement, irregularity, anomaly, anarchy, anarchism, want of method, untidiness, disunion, discord, confusion, confusedness, mishmash, mix, disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber, cahotage, farrago, mess, mash, muddle, muss, hash, hodgepodge, hotch-potch, hotch-pot, imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum, medley, mere mixture, fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra, rudis indigestaque moles, complexity, turmoil, ferment, to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble, whirlwind, bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors, Bedlam, all hell broke loose, bull in a china shop, all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay, pretty kettle of fish, pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business, disorderly person, disorderly persons offence, misdemeanor, slattern, slut (libertine), disorderly, orderless, out of order, out of place, out of gear, irregular, desultory, anomalous, acephalous, deranged, aimless, disorganized, straggling, unmethodical, immethodical, unsymmetric, unsystematic, untidy, slovenly, dislocated, out of sorts, promiscuous, indiscriminate, chaotic, anarchical, unarranged &c (arrange), confused, deranged, topsy-turvy, shapeless, disjointed, out of joint, troublous, riotous, complex, irregularly, by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and starts, pellmell, higgledy-piggledy, helter-skelter, harum-scarum, in a ferment, at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes, upside down, the cart before the horse, hysteron proteron, chaos is come again, the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.

Multiformity

N multiformity, omniformity, variety, diversity, multifariousness, varied assortment, dissimilarity, polymorphous, multiform, multifold, multifarious, multigenerous, multiplex, heterogeneous, diversified, dissimilar, various, varied, variform, manifold, many-sided, variegated, motley, mosaic, epicene, indiscriminate, desultory, irregular, mixed, different, assorted, mingled, odd, diverse, divers, all manner of, of every description, of all sorts and kinds, et hoc genus omne, and what not? de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis, jumbled, confused, mixed up, discordant, inharmonious, unmatched, unrelated, nonuniform, omniform, omnigenous, omnifarious, protean (form), harmoniously confused, variety's the very spice of life.

Dimness

N dimness, darkness, paleness, half light, demi-jour, partial shadow, partial eclipse, shadow of a shade, glimmer, gliming, nebulosity, cloud, eclipse, aurora, dusk, twilight, shades of evening, crepuscule, cockshut time, break of day, daybreak, dawn, moonlight, moonbeam, moonglade, moonshine, starlight, owl's light, candlelight, rushlight, firelight, farthing candle, dim, dull, lackluster, dingy, darkish, shorn of its beams, dark, faint, shadowed forth, glassy, cloudy, misty, blear, muggy, fuliginous, nebulous, nebular, obnubilated, overcast, crepuscular, muddy, lurid, leaden, dun, dirty, looming, pale, confused.

Invisibility

N invisibility, invisibleness, nonappearance, imperceptibility, indistinctness, mystery, delitescence, concealment, latency, invisible, imperceptible, undiscernible, indiscernible, unapparent, non-apparent, out of sight, not in sight, a perte de vue, behind the scenes, behind the curtain, viewless, sightless, inconspicuous, unconspicuous, unseen &c (see), covert, eclipsed, under an eclipse, dim, mysterious, dark, obscure, confused, indistinct, indistinguishable, shadowy, indefinite, undefined, ill- defined, ill-marked, blurred, fuzzy, out of focus, misty, delitescent, hidden, obscured, covered, veiled (concealed), full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

Uncertainty

N uncertainty, incertitude, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubitation, dubitancy, dubitousness, hesitation, suspense, perplexity, embarrassment, dilemma, bewilderment, timidity, vacillation, diaporesis, indetermination, vagueness, haze, fog, obscurity, ambiguity, contingency, dependence, dependency, double contingency, possibility upon a possibility, open question, onus probandi, blind bargain, pig in a poke, leap in the dark, something or other, needle in a haystack, needle in a bottle of hay, roving commission, precariousness, fallibility, uncertain, casual, random, changeable, doubtful, dubious, indecisive, unsettled, undecided, undetermined, in suspense, open to discussion, controvertible, in question, vague, indeterminate, indefinite, ambiguous, equivocal, undefined, undefinable, confused, mystic, oracular, dazed, perplexing, enigmatic, paradoxical, apocryphal, problematical, hypothetical, experimental, unpredictable, unforeseeable (unknowable), fallible, questionable, precarious, slippery, ticklish, debatable, disputable, unreliable, untrustworthy, contingent, contingent on, dependent on, subject to, dependent on circumstances, occasional, provisional, unauthentic, unauthenticated, unauthoritative, unascertained, unconfirmed, undemonstrated, untold, uncounted, in a state of uncertainty, in a cloud, in a maze, bushed, off the track, ignorant, afraid to say, out of one's reckoning, astray, adrift, at sea, at fault, at a loss, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus, puzzled, lost, abroad, d_esorient_e, distracted, distraught, pendente lite, sub spe rati, Heaven knows, who can tell? who shall decide when doctors disagr.

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