'Muddle' definitions:
Definition of 'muddle'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Muddle'
From: GCIDE
- Muddle \Mud"dle\, n. A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness. [1913 Webster]
- We both grub on in a muddle. --Dickens. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Muddle'
From: 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.] [1913 Webster]
- He did ill to muddle the water. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially. [1913 Webster]
- Epicurus seems to have had brains so muddled and confounded, that he scarce ever kept in the right way. --Bentley. [1913 Webster]
- Often drunk, always muddled. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- They muddle it [money] away without method or object, and without having anything to show for it. --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify. --F. W. Newman. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Muddle'
From: GCIDE
- Muddle \Mud"dle\, v. i.
- 1. To dabble in mud. [Obs.] --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To think and act in a confused, aimless way. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'muddle'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- addle,
- addle the wits,
- amaze,
- anarchy,
- ataxia,
- baffle,
- ball up,
- bamboozle,
- be all thumbs,
- beat,
- becloud,
- bedazzle,
- befog,
- befuddle,
- befuddlement,
- bemuse,
- bewilder,
- bewilderment,
- blunder,
- blunder away,
- blunder into,
- blunder on,
- blunder upon,
- blur,
- blur distinctions,
- boggle,
- bollix,
- bollix up,
- botch,
- botchery,
- bother,
- botheration,
- buffalo,
- bug,
- bumble,
- bungle,
- butcher,
- chaos,
- cloud,
- clutter,
- commit a gaffe,
- complicate,
- confound,
- confuse,
- confusion,
- contrive,
- cope,
- daze,
- dazzle,
- deform,
- disarrange,
- disarray,
- disaster,
- discombobulate,
- discombobulation,
- discomfit,
- discomfiture,
- discompose,
- discomposure,
- disconcert,
- disconcertion,
- dishevel,
- disorder,
- disorganization,
- disorganize,
- disorient,
- disorientation,
- distort,
- distract,
- disturb,
- disturbance,
- embarrass,
- embarrassment,
- embrangle,
- entangle,
- fabulous formless darkness,
- faux pas,
- fiasco,
- floor,
- flounder,
- flummox,
- flunk,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- fog,
- fog up,
- foozle,
- foul up,
- foul-up,
- frenzy,
- fuddle,
- fuddlement,
- fumble,
- fuss,
- fuzz,
- garble,
- get,
- get along,
- get by,
- hash,
- hassle,
- haze,
- huddle,
- implicate,
- involve,
- jumble,
- jumble together,
- jungle,
- keep in suspense,
- knock galley-west,
- knot,
- license,
- lick,
- limp,
- litter,
- louse up,
- lumber,
- make do,
- make it,
- make uncertain,
- mar,
- maze,
- mess,
- mess up,
- miscue,
- mishmash,
- mismanage,
- misrule,
- mist,
- mix,
- mix up,
- mix-up,
- moider,
- morass,
- muck,
- muck up,
- mud,
- muddle through,
- muddlement,
- muddy,
- muff,
- mull,
- murder,
- murmur,
- muss,
- muss up,
- mutter,
- mystify,
- nonplus,
- obfuscate,
- obscure,
- overlook distinctions,
- perplex,
- perplexity,
- perturb,
- perturbation,
- pi,
- play havoc with,
- play hob with,
- pother,
- pucker,
- put out,
- puzzle,
- raise hell,
- ramify,
- rattle,
- ravel,
- riffle,
- rile,
- ruffle,
- rummage,
- scramble,
- scrape along,
- scrape through,
- screw up,
- screw-up,
- shambles,
- shuffle,
- slip,
- snafu,
- snarl,
- snarl up,
- spoil,
- stew,
- stick,
- stumble,
- stump,
- swallow,
- sweat,
- swivet,
- tangle,
- throw,
- throw into confusion,
- throw off,
- tizzy,
- topsy-turviness,
- trip,
- tumble,
- unform,
- unsettle,
- unsettlement,
- unshape,
- upset,
- washout