'Muddled' definitions:
Definition of 'muddled'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Confused and vague; used especially of thinking; "muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain"; "woolly thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas" [syn: addled, befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly, wooly, woolly-headed, wooly-minded]
Definition of 'Muddled'
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]
Synonyms of 'muddled'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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