1. (adj)baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at sea 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"
2. (adj)confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected lacking orderlycontinuity "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts"
3. (adj)confused, disoriented, lost having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personalidentity "I frequently find myself disoriented when I come up out of the subway"; "the anesthetic left her completely disoriented"
4. (adj)broken, confused, disordered, upset 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"
5. (adj)confused mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently "the flood of questions left her bewildered and confused"