Muddled

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Muddle \Mud"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Muddled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Muddling}.] [From {Mud}.]
     1. To make turbid, or muddy, as water. [Obs.]
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              He did ill to muddle the water.       --L'Estrange.


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     2. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to
        intoxicate partially.
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              Epicurus seems to have had brains so muddled and
              confounded, that he scarce ever kept in the right
              way.                                  --Bentley.
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              Often drunk, always muddled.          --Arbuthnot.
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     3. To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or
        intoxicated. [R.]
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              They muddle it [money] away without method or
              object, and without having anything to show for it.
                                                    --Hazlitt.
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     4. To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to
        muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify. --F. W.
        Newman.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  muddled
       adj : confused and vague; used especially of thinking;
             "muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain";
             "woolly thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas" [syn: {addled},
              {befuddled}, {muzzy}, {woolly}, {wooly}, {woolly-headed},
              {wooly-minded}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  111 Moby Thesaurus words for "muddled":
     addlebrained, addled, addleheaded, addlepated, anarchic,
     arsy-varsy, ass-backwards, at a loss, baffled, balled up,
     bamboozled, beat, beclouded, beery, befuddled, bemused, besotted,
     blear-witted, blind drunk, bollixed up, boozy, buffaloed, canned,
     chaotic, cloudy, confounded, confused, crapulent, crapulous, dazed,
     disconnected, discontinuous, disguised, disjointed, disordered,
     dizzy, drenched, drunk, drunken, far-gone, floored, flustered,
     fogged, foggy, fou, fouled up, fuddlebrained, fuddled, full,
     galley-west, gay, giddy, glorious, happy, hazy, helter-skelter,
     higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, in a dilemma, in a fog,
     in a mess, in a muddle, in liquor, in suspense, inchoate,
     inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, intoxicated, jolly, jumbled,
     licked, maudlin, mellow, merry, misted, misty, mixed up, mucked up,
     muddleheaded, muddybrained, muzzy, mystified, nappy, nonplussed,
     on tenterhooks, perplexed, pixilated, plastered, puzzled,
     puzzleheaded, reeling, scattered, scramblebrained, screwed up,
     shikker, skimble-skamble, snafu, sodden, sotted, stuck, stumped,
     thrown, tiddly, tight, tipsy, topsy-turvy, unconnected,
     under the influence, unorganized, upside-down