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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. Bill Condon:

    LeFou is somebody who on one day wants to be Gaston and on another day wants to kiss Gaston, he’s confused about what he wants. It’s somebody who’s just realizing that he has these feelings.

  2. Josh Gad:

    He's confused about what he wants. It's somebody who's just realizing that he has these feelings.

  3. Chiara Scaglia:

    The perception of the lingerie sector has changed, at the beginning many people we spoke to were confused as to why anybody should spend over $1,000 on panties for something nobody sees.

  4. Andrew Schneider:

    Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate, but then they hate her for being weak. It's an ambivalence that goes back to a man's relationship with his mother. Source of his life, center of his universe, object of both his fear and his love.

  5. Pauline Moreno:

    Oh look, he's confused.

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