adj
Meaning 1
unable to think clearly or understand
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
confused
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Received-Pronunciation: /kənˈfjuːzd/
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Canada, General-American: /kənˈfjuzd/
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Australian, New-Zealand: /kənˈfjʉːzd/
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rhymes with -uːzd
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CMU ARPABET: K AH0 N F Y UW1 Z D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
disoriented
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
chaotic, jumbled or muddled
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: wooly
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
making no sense; illogical
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Meaning 5
embarrassed
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 6
simple past and past participle of confuse
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 7
mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the flood of questions left her bewildered and confused
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: clearheaded
adjective satellite
Meaning 8
lacking orderly continuity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a confused set of instructions
- a confused dream about the end of the world
- disconnected fragments of a story
- scattered thoughts
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 9
thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- troops fleeing in broken ranks
- a confused mass of papers on the desk
- the small disordered room
- with everything so upset
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: broken, disordered, upset
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 10
having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- I frequently find myself disoriented when I come up out of the subway
- the anesthetic left her completely disoriented
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: disoriented, lost
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 11
perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at sea
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Originally from Middle English confused (“frustrated, ruined”), from Anglo-Norman confus + Middle English -ed (past participial suffix), from Latin cōnfūsus, past participle of cōnfundō; now equivalent to confuse (a back-formation) + -ed.
Across languages
Translations
150 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Azerbaijani: çaşmış — unable to think clearly or understand
- Basque: nahasi — unable to think clearly or understand
- Bulgarian: объркан (obǎrkan) — unable to think clearly or understand
- Catalan: confòs — unable to think clearly or understand
- Cebuano: naglibog — unable to think clearly or understand
- Chinese Mandarin: 困惑 (kùnhuò) — unable to think clearly or understand
- Corsican: cunfusa — unable to think clearly or understand
- Danish: forvirret — unable to think clearly or understand
- Esperanto: konfuzita — unable to think clearly or understand
- Finnish: hämmentynyt — unable to think clearly or understand
- Finnish: sekava — unable to think clearly or understand
- French: désorienté — unable to think clearly or understand
- French: perdu — unable to think clearly or understand
- French: embrouillé — unable to think clearly or understand
- Georgian: დაბნეული (dabneuli) — unable to think clearly or understand
- Georgian: თავგზააბნეული (tavgzaabneuli) — unable to think clearly or understand
- German: verwirrt — unable to think clearly or understand
- German: durcheinander — unable to think clearly or understand
- German: konfus — unable to think clearly or understand
- German: wirr — unable to think clearly or understand
- Greek: μπερδεμένος (berdeménos) — unable to think clearly or understand
- Ancient Greek: ταραχώδης (tarakhṓdēs) — unable to think clearly or understand
- Haitian Creole: konfonn — unable to think clearly or understand
- Hindi: भ्रमित (bhramit) — unable to think clearly or understand
- Hungarian: zavart — unable to think clearly or understand
- Igbo: ná mgbagwoju anya — unable to think clearly or understand
- Latin: inconditus — unable to think clearly or understand
- Luxembourgish: duercherneen — unable to think clearly or understand
- Macedonian: збунет (zbunet) — unable to think clearly or understand
- Malay: keliru — unable to think clearly or understand
- Persian: مشنگ (mašang) — unable to think clearly or understand
- Plautdietsch: werr — unable to think clearly or understand
- Portuguese: confuso — unable to think clearly or understand
- Scottish Gaelic: tuathal — unable to think clearly or understand
- Scottish Gaelic: tro-chèile — unable to think clearly or understand
- Serbo-Croatian: zbunjeni — unable to think clearly or understand
- Spanish: confundido — unable to think clearly or understand
- Swedish: förvirrad — unable to think clearly or understand
- Swedish: virrig — unable to think clearly or understand
- Tagalog: nalilito — unable to think clearly or understand
- Tagalog: hira — unable to think clearly or understand
- Thai: สับสน (sàp-sǒn) — unable to think clearly or understand
- Turkish: şaşkın — unable to think clearly or understand
- Turkish: şaşırmış — unable to think clearly or understand
- Ottoman Turkish: شاشقین (şaşkın) — unable to think clearly or understand
- Ukrainian: приголо́мшений (pryholómšenyj) — unable to think clearly or understand
- Ukrainian: ошеле́шений (ošeléšenyj) — unable to think clearly or understand
- Winnebago: hokižac — unable to think clearly or understand
- Yiddish: צעמישט (tsemisht) — unable to think clearly or understand
- Azerbaijani: çaşqın — disoriented
- Bulgarian: объркан (obǎrkan) — disoriented
- Catalan: desorientat — disoriented
- French: désorienté — disoriented
- German: desorientiert — disoriented
- German: verwirrt — disoriented
- Ancient Greek: ταραχώδης (tarakhṓdēs) — disoriented
- Hungarian: zavarodott — disoriented
- Māori: rarerare — disoriented
- Māori: kutekute — disoriented
- Māori: pōrangirangi — disoriented
- Māori: pōraru (raru) — disoriented
- Plautdietsch: werr — disoriented
- Polish: zdezorientowany — disoriented
- Spanish: confundido — disoriented
- Swedish: förvirrad — disoriented
- Swedish: virrig — disoriented
- Thai: มึนงง — disoriented
- Azerbaijani: qarışıq — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Azerbaijani: qarmaqarışıq — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Azerbaijani: tərtibsiz — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Azerbaijani: nizamsız — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Bulgarian: разбъркан (razbǎrkan) — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Bulgarian: разстроен (razstroen) — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Catalan: confús — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Catalan: embolicat — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Catalan: envitricollat — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Catalan: embrollat — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Chinese Mandarin: 混乱 (hùnluàn) — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Czech: zmatený — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Danish: forvirret — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Dutch: verward — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Dutch: in de war — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Esperanto: konfuza — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Faroese: ørkymlaður — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Finnish: sekava — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- French: embrouillé — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- West-Frisian: betiisd — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- German: wirr — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- German: verwirrt — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- German: zerstreut — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Greek: μπερδεμένος (berdeménos) — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Greek: συγκεχυμένος (sygkechyménos) — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Hebrew: מבולבל (mevulbal) — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Hungarian: zavart — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Icelandic: ruglaður — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Italian: confuso — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Latin: cōnfūsus — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Latin: turbidus — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Māori: whakapiki — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Norwegian Bokmål: forvirret — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Norwegian Bokmål: forfjamset — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Plautdietsch: werr — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Polish: zakłopotany — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Polish: zmieszany — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Portuguese: confuso — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Portuguese: confundido — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Romanian: confuz — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Romanian: haotic — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Russian: спу́танный (spútannyj) — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Russian: беспоря́дочный (besporjádočnyj) — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Scottish Gaelic: tro-chèile — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Spanish: confuso — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Swedish: rörig — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Swedish: oordnad — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Winnebago: hokižac — chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- Azerbaijani: qarışıq — making no sense; illogical
- Azerbaijani: anlaşılmaz — making no sense; illogical
- Azerbaijani: dolaşıq — making no sense; illogical
- Bulgarian: объркан (obǎrkan) — making no sense; illogical
- Bulgarian: безсмислен (bezsmislen) — making no sense; illogical
- Catalan: confús — making no sense; illogical
- Catalan: incoherent — making no sense; illogical
- Catalan: sense solta — making no sense; illogical
- Finnish: älytön — making no sense; illogical
- French: incohérent — making no sense; illogical
- German: wirr — making no sense; illogical
- German: verwirrt — making no sense; illogical
- German: unzusammenhängend — making no sense; illogical
- German: unsinnig — making no sense; illogical
- German: unlogisch — making no sense; illogical
- German: konfus — making no sense; illogical
- Italian: confuso — making no sense; illogical
- Romanian: confuz — making no sense; illogical
- Russian: бессмы́сленный (bessmýslennyj) — making no sense; illogical
- Scottish Gaelic: tro-chèile — making no sense; illogical
- Spanish: confuso — making no sense; illogical
- Swedish: rörig — making no sense; illogical
- Bulgarian: смутен (smuten) — embarrassed
- Catalan: avergonyit — embarrassed
- Catalan: avergonyida — embarrassed
- Finnish: hämmentynyt — embarrassed
- French: embarrassé — embarrassed
- German: beschämt — embarrassed
- Greek: αμήχανος (amíchanos) — embarrassed
- Italian: confuso — embarrassed
- Romanian: încurcat — embarrassed
- Romanian: confuz — embarrassed
- Russian: сконфу́женный (skonfúžennyj) — embarrassed
- Russian: смущённый (smuščónnyj) — embarrassed
- Scottish Gaelic: tro-chèile — embarrassed
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