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con·fused

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at seaadjective

    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. confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnectedadjective

    lacking orderly continuity

    "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts"

  3. confused, disoriented, lostadjective

    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"

  4. broken, confused, disordered, upsetadjective

    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. confusedadjective

    mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently

    "the flood of questions left her bewildered and confused"

Wiktionary

  1. confusedadjective

    chaotic, jumbled or muddled

  2. confusedadjective

    making no sense; illogical

  3. confusedadjective

    embarrassed

Wikipedia

  1. Confused

    Confused is a song by Tevin Campbell, released as the seventh single from his debut album T. E. V. I. N. on October 29, 1992.

ChatGPT

  1. confused

    Confused refers to the state of being unable to think clearly or to understand something due to perceived complexities, uncertainties, or feeling overwhelmed. It can also refer to the state of being unclear, mixed up or disorderly.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Confused

    of Confuse

Entomology

  1. Confused

    a marking with indefinite outlines: a running together as of lines and spots without definite pattern.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'confused' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4764

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'confused' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3579

  3. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'confused' in Adjectives Frequency: #619

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of confused in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of confused in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of confused in a Sentence

  1. Eric Schmdit:

    If you're ever confused as to the value of newspaper editors, look at the blog world. That's all you need to see.

  2. Brian Foren:

    I worry that he's confused for being loony by being so honest. It shocks Americans.

  3. Roger:

    Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

  4. Jim Fitzgerald:

    Ted Kaczynski mugshot was a confused person growing up, mentally, sexually, philosophically, and Ted Kaczynski mugshot did n’t like people … Ted Kaczynski mugshot basically did n’t like Ted Kaczynski mugshot.

  5. Jeff Zeleny:

    Repeatedly throughout this interview … President Biden seems confused and was confusing the half a billion tests that they’ve ordered with a half a billion pills. And, of course, pills were in the news today with the Pfizer approval of the anti-viral, so he corrected himself, but that was one thing that stuck out to me, but then simply this administration, and the president leading the charge here, really not accepting any responsibility at all for this lack of testing.

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