Definitions for confused
con·fused

Princeton's WordNet(2.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

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"

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1. confusedadjective

   chaotic, jumbled or muddled

2. confusedadjective

   making no sense; illogical

3. confusedadjective

   embarrassed

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1. Confused

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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

How to pronounce confused?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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How to say confused in sign language?

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. Greg Gutfeld:

   The point is you need to have more than one filter in life or you're going to be very, very confused. I feel great about this decision. The justice system worked … the media [assumed] that … White jurors only vote in a specific way and they grouped in in a bigoted, uniform, bigoted manner. And we know that this isn't true and it shows you how every case is different. Every case is nuanced. Avoid these sweeping generalizations.

2. Natalie Portman:

   I remember being a teenager, and there was Jessica Simpson on the cover of a magazine saying' I'm a virgin' while wearing a bikini, and I was confused, like, I don't know what this is trying to tell me as a woman, as a girl.

3. Mehmet Oz:

   I've realized my comments on risks around schools have confused and upset people, which was never my intention.

4. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich:

   1. It is egoism that leads to the latent destruction of mental, elastic genes. The adaptive transformation functions of conformism lead them to complete vulnerability. Selfishness as the basis for the development of marketing of human weakness. 2. The rate of currencies of human weakness is growing, on the stock exchange it is self-interest, people are becoming weaker mentally and spiritually. 3. Paleontology of conservatism and theology of morality. All this is a thing of the past, since the world inevitably goes into the shell of a black hole of selfishness. 4. In the midst of blindness from hypocrisy. The intuition of conscience is a ballistic echolocation of the navigator of feelings and emotions. It is often confused with the self-deception of selfishness. 5. The mind is like a lowrider, not all wheels of thinking move normally with the effect of spinning wheels karmic, deja vu rumination of thought, moving in one direction then in another. Thinking is like a machine, bouncing forward. With neon illuminated holiness. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

5. Alicia Silverstone:

   They would make fun of my body when I was younger, it was hurtful but I knew they were wrong. I wasn't confused. I knew that it was not right to make fun of someone's body shape, that doesn't seem like the right thing to be doing to a human.

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