Confused

4 definitions found

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

  confused \confused\ adj.
     1. same as {confounded}; as, bewildered and confused.
  
     Syn: at sea, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded,
          mazed, mixed-up.
          [WordNet 1.5]


  
     2. lacking orderly continuity.
  
     Syn: disconnected, disjointed, disordered, disorganized,
          desultory, garbled, illogical, rambling, scattered,
          unconnected.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     3. thrown into disorder; as, His workbench held a confused
        assortment of spare engine parts..
  
     Syn: disordered, in disarray, upset.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     4. having lost one's bearings physically or mentally.
  
     Syn: disoriented, lost.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     5. not marked by fine distinctions. {discriminate}
  
     Syn: indiscriminate.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     6. causing bafflement and confusion.
  
     Syn: bewildering, confusing.
          [WordNet 1.5]

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

  Confuse \Con*fuse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Confused}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Confusing}.]
     1. To mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished;
        to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or
        obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              A universal hubbub wild
              Of stunning sounds and voices all confused.
                                                    --Milton.
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     2. To perplex; to disconcert; to abash; to cause to lose
        self-possession.
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              Nor thou with shadowed hint confuse
              A life that leads melodious days.     --Tennyson.
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              Confused and sadly she at length replied. --Pope.
  
     Syn: To abash; disorder; disarrange; disconcert; confound;
          obscure; distract. See {Abash}.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  confused
       adj 1: 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" [syn: {baffled},
               {befuddled}, {bemused}, {bewildered}, {confounded}, {lost},
               {mazed}, {mixed-up}, {at sea}]
       2: lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of
          instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the
          world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered
          thoughts" [syn: {disconnected}, {disjointed}, {disordered},
           {garbled}, {illogical}, {scattered}, {unconnected}]
       3: 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" [syn: {disoriented}, {lost}]
       4: 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" [syn: {broken}, {disordered}, {upset}]
       5: mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act
          intelligently; "the flood of questions left her bewildered
          and confused" [ant: {clearheaded}]

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

  251 Moby Thesaurus words for "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