Confused

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},
           {confused}, {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: {confused},
       {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: {confused}, {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}, {confused}, {disordered}, {upset}]
    5: mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act
       intelligently; "the flood of questions left her bewildered
       and confused" [ant: {clear-thinking}, {clearheaded}]
    

confused \confused\ adj.
   1. same as {confounded}; as, bewildered and confused.

   Syn: at sea, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded,
        mazed, mixed-up.
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   2. lacking orderly continuity.

   Syn: disconnected, disjointed, disordered, disorganized,
        desultory, garbled, illogical, rambling, scattered,
        unconnected.
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   3. thrown into disorder; as, His workbench held a confused
      assortment of spare engine parts..

   Syn: disordered, in disarray, upset.
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   4. having lost one's bearings physically or mentally.

   Syn: disoriented, lost.
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   5. not marked by fine distinctions. {discriminate}

   Syn: indiscriminate.
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   6. causing bafflement and confusion.

   Syn: bewildering, confusing.
        [WordNet 1.5]
    

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.
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            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}.
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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