'Confused' definitions:
Definition of 'confused'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at sea]
adjective
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: confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected]
adjective
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: confused, disoriented, lost]
adjective
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, confused, disordered, upset]
adjective
Mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently; "the flood of questions left her bewildered and confused" [ant: clear-thinking, clearheaded]
Definition of 'Confused'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To perplex; to disconcert; to abash; to cause to lose self-possession. [1913 Webster]
- Nor thou with shadowed hint confuse A life that leads melodious days. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- Confused and sadly she at length replied. --Pope.
- Syn: To abash; disorder; disarrange; disconcert; confound; obscure; distract. See Abash. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'confused'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'confused'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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