Confused

Definition: Confused

Confused

Adjective

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".

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".

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".

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".

5. Mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently; "the flood of questions left her bewildered and confused".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "confused" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonyms: Confused

Disorder

Immethodical; unsymmetric, unsystematic; untidy, slovenly; dislocated; out of sorts; promiscuous, indiscriminate; chaotic, anarchical; unarranged; (see arrange; ); confused; deranged; topsy-turvy; (inverted); shapeless; disjointed, out of joint.

Multiformity

Jumbled, confused, mixed up, discordant; inharmonious, unmatched, unrelated, nonuniform.

Obscurity

Adjective: obscure; Noun: crabbed, involved, confused.

Uncertainty

Vague; indeterminate, indefinite; ambiguous, equivocal; undefined, undefinable; confused; (indistinct); mystic, oracular; dazed.

Crosswords: Confused

I get confused sometimes. (The Firm; writing credit: David Rabe)

Major, right now you got me about as confused as I ever hope to be. (Where Eagles Dare; writing credit: Alistair MacLean;)

So I said, 'Sister, please, anyone could have confused 'Hail Mary' with 'Proud Mary' and besides, I do a very good Tina Turner! (Girls Just Want to Have Fun; writing credit: Amy Spies)

Max, you obviously got me confused with someone who gives a rat's ass. (Fair Game; writing credit: Charlie Fletcher)

Look, you're confused by their names, because they all sound like questions. (The Kids in the Hall; writing credit: Dave Foley; Bruce McCulloch)

I, I was so confused (Even The Nights Are Better; performing artist: Air Supply)

Lovin' you darlin' makes me so confused (Fallin'; performing artist: Alicia Keys)

See I was lost and confused (Butterfly; performing artist: Crazy Town)

I can't help bein' confused; if it's true, won't you tell me dear? (I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival)

Running in and out my life has got me so confused (Don't Let Go (Love) Chorus; performing artist: En Vogue)

18 and Confused 5 (2001)

Dazed and Confused (1993)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Job Hunting for the Utterly Confused (reference)

• Kodansha's Effective Japanese Usage Dictionary: A Concise Explanation of Frequently Confused Words and Phrases (reference)

• The Confused Photographer's Guide to On-Camera Spotmetering (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Dazed & Confused (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Dazed and Confused (reference)

• Maison Ikkoku: Call Me Confused (reference)

• Fast Times At/Dazed & Confused 2-Pk (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Dazed And Confused (1993 Film) [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• Even More Dazed And Confused (1993 Film Dazed And Confused) [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• I'm So Confused (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

PET scan on an 11-year-old boy with hemophilia and AIDS. Before treatment subject was confused and somnolent. These symptoms were resolved with AZT therapy. The increase in green and red areas after treatment denotes a rise in glucose metabolism, indicating an improvement in brain function. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Histopathology of lymph node showing Hamazaki-Wesenberg bodies, which are benign yellow -brown football-shaped structures sometimes confused with infectious agents. Credit: CDC.

The semi-aquatic Eastern Mud Turtle, Kinosternon subrubrum subrubrum, is the mud turtle found in the Chesapeake Bay area. Found in wetlands and tidal marshes, is is easlily confused with the musk turtle. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The Snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina, is easily confused with the alligator snapping turtle. Considered ill-tempered, they feed on invertebrates, fish, reptiles, carrion, etc. and a surprising amount of vegetation. These turtles trapped in the fresh and brackish waters of bay tributaries and sold to restaurants for use in soups and stews. Credit: America's Coastlines.

[Laziness confused with malaria] / [William A. Rogers]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Photographed circa 1916-1917. This boat was given the Navy registry number SP-16 in 1917, but was not taken over for Naval service. She has been confused in some sources with another motor boat of the same name, which became USS Mystery (SP-428). Credit: NAVY.

Puck (?) distributing information about the "silver question" to farmers confused about tariff reform. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

This is demonstratively to reduce all to anarchy, and so effectually to dissolve the government: for laws not being made for themselves, but to be, by their execution, the bonds of the society, to keep every part of the body politic in its due place and function; when that totally ceases, the government visibly ceases, and the people become a confused multitude, without order or connexion. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Emma was extremely confused.

This answer so confused poor Alice, that she let the Dormouse go on for some time without interrupting it.

And she had a confused glimpse of the possible necessity of a separation still more painful than the first.

He felt his whole body hot and confused in a moment.

I heard a confused noise about me, but in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

In rare cases patients may become confused. (references)

Empty sella syndrome may be confused with pituitary disorders. (references)

He or she also may have a headache and be confused or embarrassed. (references)

Business

But landfills in Thailand should not be confused with what a U.S. municipality or business would call a landfill. (references)

All of the types of solar power described are active applications and should not be confused with passive solar energy applications. (references)

Civil Liberties

Estonia

In May the MIA declined to approve the application, explaining that it could not formally register this church under its desired name, since it would be confused too easily with the EAOC. (references)

Economic History

Romania

About 1,500 people were killed in confused street fighting. (references)

Iran

Despite these guidelines, however, bilateral relations are frequently confused and contradictory due to Iran's oscillation between pragmatic and ideological concerns. (references)

Human Rights

Honduras

While bail is legally available, it is granted primarily for medical reasons; however, procedures in such cases are confused and unclear. (references)

Mexico

Incidents of conflict in Chiapas between security forces and EZLN sympathizers, and in Guerrero between the army and the EPR and the ERPI, led to accusations of the use of excessive force; however, the confused circumstances of these clashes made those allegations difficult to substantiate. (references)

Worker Rights

Cambodia

The Government's enforcement efforts were hampered by a lack of political will and by confused financial and political relationships with employers and union leaders. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Who is old or confused

Expressions using "confused": be confused ♦ become confused ♦ get confused ♦ getting confused. Additional references.

Beginning with "confused": confused-elderly, confused-looking.

Ending with "confused": semi-confused.

Albanian

në siklet, i hutuar (abashed, absent, absentminded, bewildered, disconcerted, distracted, dizzy, foggy, inadvertent, muddle-headed, perplexed, puzzle-headed, puzzle-pated, vague). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فوضوي (anarchic, anarchist, chaotic, disarrayed, disordered, lawless, messy, mixed up, skinhead), ‏متحير (bewildered, confounded, discomfited, distracted, embarrassed, nonplused, perplexed, puzzled), ‏مضطرب (deranged, disarranged, disarrayed, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, disturbed, ill at ease, jumbled, mixed up, muddled, restive, restless, rough, troubled, tumultuous, uneasy, unquiet, unsettled, upset), ‏مختل (defective, deranged, disturbed, faulty, upset), ‏مرتبك (agitated, baffled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, discomfited, disconcerted, disquieted, disturbed, embarrassed, lummox, perplexed, perturbed, puzzled, uneasy, upset), ‏مشوش (become confused, chaotic, deranged, disarranged, disarrayed, disordered, disorganized, disturbed, disturber, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, jumbled up, messy, mixed, muddled, muddy, promiscuous, unsettled), ‏حائر, ‏بخبل. (various references)

Bulgarian 

смутен (abashed, constrained, disconcerted, distraught, embarrassed, muddle-headed, muzzy, perplexed, perturbed, raddle, self conscious, sheepish, uneasy, unrestful), объркан (addle-brained, bushed, deranged, disconcerted, distraught, embarrassed, foggy, graven, haywire, helter-skelter, intricate, involute, lost, mazy, mixed, mixed up, muddle-headed, muddy, muzzy, obscure, perplexed, punch-drunk, puzzle-headed, puzzle-pated, raddle, tangly, turbid, undigested, unglued, woolly), неясен (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blear, bleary, crepuscular, dark, doubtful, dreamy, dusk, fuzzy, hazy, illegible, inarticulate, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indistinct, intangible, involved, inward, loose, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, obscure, pale, recondite, shadowy, soft, transcendental, ulterior, unclear, undecided, unformed, vague, vapory, vapoury, wan, woolly), несвързан (delirious, desultory, disconnected, discontinuous, discrete, disjointed, incoherent, inconsequent, irrelative, loose, rambling, rhapsodic, scrappy, unconnected, unrelated). (various references)

Chinese 

茸 (fluffy, luxuriant growth), 轕 (disorderly), 迷茫, 迷 (bewilder, crazy about, enthusiast, fan, lost), 紜 (numerous), 紛 (disorderly, numerous), 暈 (dizzy, faint, giddy, ring around moon or sun), 惛 (forgetful, silly), 沌 (turbid), 慁 (dishonor), �' (troubled), 混 (dirty, mix, thoughtless, to get along, to mix), 棼 (beams in roof), 汩 (extinguished), 困惑 (bewilder, perplexity). (various references)

Czech

zmatený (addle-brained, addle-pated, bemused, bewildered, chaotic, disordered, embroiled, in confusion, mazy, mixed, muddy, screwed up, turbid), zašmordchaný (tortuous), popletený (addle-brained, addle-headed, addle-pated, befuddled), nepřehledný. (various references)

Danish

schizofreni med konfusioner (confused schizophrenia), kromering, d.v.s. diffusion af Cr, maa ikke forveksles med forkromning eller med kromatering (chromizing - diffusion of chronium - must not be confused with chromium plating or chromating RF Webster; Osborne). (various references)

Dutch

ehromeren, diffusie van chroom, niet te verwarren met verschromen noch met chromateren (chromizing - diffusion of chronium - must not be confused with chromium plating or chromating RF Webster; Osborne). (various references)

Finnish

ymmälle (bewildered, perplexed), ymmällä (bewildered, perplexed, taken aback), tolkuton (senseless, unintelligible), sekava (incoherent, involved, muddled, tangled), sekainen (mixed, muddled, muddy, tangled), epäselvä (hazy, illegible, indistinct, not clear, obscure). (various references)

French

confus, paumé, filandreux, embrouillé (complicate), embarrassé (conscious, hot under the collar, self conscious), désorienté, désordonné. (various references)

German

konfus (mixed up, muddled, muddle-headed), verwechselte (confounded, mistook). (various references)

Greek 

συγκεχυμένοσ, μπερδεμένοσ (complicated, knotty), ταραγμένοσ (abashed, agitated, nervous). (various references)

Hebrew 

משובש (corrupt, distorted, disturbed, faulty, illegible), מקושקש (doodled, scribbled), מעורבב (jumbled, messy, mixed), מבולבל (addled, disturbed, flurried, fuddled, incoherent, muddleheaded, perplexed, upset), שולל (barefoot, captive, stripped), � כלם (ashamed, embarrassed, shamefaced, shy), � בוך (bemused, bewildered, embarrassed, foxed, hot under the collar, ill at ease, in a stew, perplexed, perturbed, self conscious, sheepish). (various references)

Hungarian

zavaros (ambiguous, bleary, blurred, chaotic, cloudy, feculent, fustian, haywire, hugger-mugger, incoherent, indistinct, intricate, motley, muddled, muddling, muddy, obscure, puddly, rambling, roily, troubled, troublous, turbid), zavarodott (disconcerted, distracted, distraught, embroiled, to be ill at ease, woolly-minded), kusza (diffuse, intricate, jumbled, muddled, shaggy, straggly). (various references)

Indonesian

terseok (bewildered, unsteady because top heavy), rancu, mumet (dizzy, headache), kisruh (anarchic, chaotic, disorganized), gelagapan (flustered, stammer, stutter), bingung (disoriented, distrait, mixed up, panicky, perplexed, perturbed, puzzled, rattled, wool-gathering). (various references)

Italian

confuso (abashed, addled, confounded, dazed, fuzzy, haywire, hazy, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, indistinct, messy, pell mell, perplexed, promiscuous, shamefaced, upset, woolly, wooly), sfasato (bewildered, out of phase), perplesso (bewildered, distracted, distraught, helpless, perplexed, puzzled), disorientato. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�'然 (noisy, uproarious), 煩雑 (complex, complicated, intricate, troublesome, vexatious), 慌た� しい (busy, flurried, hurried). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すったも�"� , そうぜ�"たる (noisy), そうぜ�" (binocular, blue, bluish, both eyes, dim, noisy, uproarious), ま�"ま�" , �"�"ざつした (congested, disorderly), あわた� しい (busy, flurried, hurried), むちゃくちゃ (jumbled, mixed up, unreasonable), は�"ざつ (complex, complicated, intricate, troublesome, vexatious). (various references)

Korean 

혼동하�". (various references)

Manx

nearildagh (ashamed, bashful, coy, coy of girl, demure, retiring, shy), mestit (churned, confusing, cross-bred, garbled, jumbled, mashed, miscellaneous, mixed, mongrel, stirred), fud y cheilley (at variance, chaotic, confusing, confusion, dishevelled, disorder, disordered, embarrassed, flustered, mixed up, muddle, muddled, perplexed, tangled, topsy-turvy), currit magh (ousted), boirit (agitated, bothered, concerned, disturbed, edgy, embarrassed, grieved, perplexed, pestered, preoccupied, teased, vexed, woeful, worried). (various references)

Pig Latin

onfusedcay

Portuguese

confuso (abrupt, abstruse, blear, cloudy, disorderly, disturbed, dizzy, hugger-mugger, indistinct, intricate, jumbled up, labyrinthine, lacklustre, mazy, medley, messy, mixed, muddle-headed, muddy, obscure, pell-mell, perplexed, promiscuous, rigmarole, rough and tumble, tangly, topsy-turvy), perplexo (foggy, mazy, perplexed, perplexing). (various references)

Romanian

confuz (abashed, addle, bewildered, blurred, chaotic, crabbed, dim, embarrassed, faint, gloomily, hazy, hugger mugger, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, stodgy, turbid, vague, washy, wrongheaded), zãpãcit (confounded, dawdler, dim, distracted, dizzy, flighty, giddy, hare-brained, headless, light-headed, madcap, muddle-headed, mused, muzzy, off one's dot, perplexedly, rash, reckless, scatterbrain, scatterbrained, scatterbrains, silly, thoughtless, topsy turvy, woolly-headed, wronghead, wrongheaded), tulburat (anxious, crazy, dim, distempered, distracted, excited, keyed, ruffled, stormy, turbid, uneasy, worried), perplex (perplexed), obscur (abstruse, cloudy, dark, darksome, dim, dull, entangled, foggy, gloomy, indistinct, murk, obscure, obscurely, recondite, tenebrous, unknown, unnoticed), neclar (blind, cloudy, dark, darkly, difficult, diffuse, dim, dull, feeble, foggy, gloomily, hazy, inarticulate, indistinct, inexplicit, lax, muddy, obscurely, vague, vaguely), derutat (puzzled), deconcertat (abashed, disconcerted), învãlmãşit (bewildered, irregular). (various references)

Russian 

смущенный (abashed, ablush, disconcerted, embarrassed, taken aback), сбивчивый (discursive, indistinct), спутанный, поставленный в тупик. (various references)

Scottish

riaspach , riasplach, driopail (hurried). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zbunjen (abashed, ablush, aghast, befuddled, bewildered, confounded, distraught, embarrassed, loss: at a loss, nonplussed, puzzled, quizzical), zbrkan (fuddled, hugger mugger, jumbled, mazy, messy, muddled, muddleheaded, muddle-headed, pell mell), smeten (addle-brained, muddleheaded, muddle-headed, puzzled, puzzle-headed, streaked). (various references)

Spanish

confuso (blurred, dim, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, hot under the collar, irresolute, messy, mixed up, perplexing, ragged, woolly, wooly). (various references)

Swedish

virrig (desultory, dizzy, featherbrained, featherheaded, featherpated, helter-skelter, indiscriminate, jumbly, muddled, muddle-headed, muddy, muzzy, puzzle-headed, puzzle-pated, rambling, scatter-brained, scatty, screwed up), förvirrad (baffled, bemused, besotted, dazed, disconcerted, distracted, dizzy, mixed up, muddle-headed, perplexed, perturbed, upset, woolly minded, woozy), förbryllad (bewildering), distraherad (distraught). (various references)

Turkish

seçilemez (ineligible), perişan (dead beat, dead end, desolate, distraught, down and out, down at heels, forlorn, hangdog, out at elbows, poor, prostrate, ruinous, run down, scattered, seedy, shoestring, up the spout, wretched), mahçup (ashamed, embarrassed, maidenly, mousy, pudent, retiring, shame-faced, timid), karman çorman (all mixed up, chaotic, crabbed, crabby, higgledy-piggledy, messy, mussy, pell mell, pellmell, ragged, topsyturvy), karmakarışık (all in a tumble, all mixed up, at sixes and sevens, chaotic, disheveled, dishevelled, embroiled, haywire, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hurly burly, in complete disorder, intricate, mess, messy, mussy, out of order, pell mell, pellmell, promiscuous, snafu), karışmış (afoul, entangled, foul, in disorder, involved, inwrought, mingled, mixed, puzzled), karışık (adulterated, blended, calico, chequered, combined, complicated, composite, compound, deep, disconcerted, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hybrid, inexplicit, inextricable, intricate, involute, involved, kinky, knotted, knotty, mazy, medley, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, obscure, out of square, promiscuous, turbid, unclassified, unsized, woolly, wooly), kafası karışmış (addle, addled, bemused, perplexed, puzzled, puzzle-headed), şaşkına dönmüş (baffled, bewildered, flabbergasted, shocked), şaşkın (addle-brained, addled, addle-headed, addle-pated, all abroad, at an end, bemused, bepuzzle, bewildered, consternated, dizzy, dumbfounded, gaping, happy, open-eyed, pixilated, puzzled, puzzle-headed, sheepish, slaphappy, taken aback, thunderstruck, twisted, wide-eyed, wondering), şaşırtıcı (amazing, astonishing, astounding, baffling, bewildering, colossal, confusing, dazzling, incredible, intriguing, mind-bending, perplexing, puzzling, rum, spectacular, staggering, startling, striking, surprising, twisty), şaşırmış (all at sea, all out, amazed, at a loss, baffled, bewildered, blank, confounded, disoriented, distracted, lost, perplexed, punch-drunk, puzzled, surprised, taken aback, twisted, wondering), allak bullak (all mixed up, at sixes and sevens, confusedly, pell mell, pellmell, snafu, topsyturvy). (various references)

Turkmen 

garjaюmak (get mixed up). (various references)

Ukrainian

сплутаний (hurly burly, matted, perplexed), збентежений (abashed, bewildered, disconcerted, distraught, ill at ease, puddled). (various references)

Vietnamese 

rối rắm mơ h�" bối rối, ngượng (ashamed), lẫn lộn (farraginous, mixed), lộn xộn (chaotic, farraginous, jumbly, messy, promiscuous, shop, skimble-scamble, straggling, straggly, topsyturvy, turbid, wild). (various references)

Welsh

cymysglyd (muddled), rhwystrus (embarrassed), pendraphen (helter-skelter), ffwndrus (bewildered). (various references)

admixtis, confusa, confusi, confusum, confusus, conturbata, conturbatae, conturbati, conturbatum, conturbatumque, conturbatus, inconditus, inconfusibilem, perplexus, turbidam, turbido. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "confused": confusedly, confusedness, confusednesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "confused": unconfused. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Confused" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: confuced, confued, confusa, confussed, confuzed, conuse, conused. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: confuse, defocus, focused, fondues.

-2 letters: codens, dunces, escudo, fecund, fondue, fondus, founds, fucose, ounces, second, secund, undoes.

-3 letters: coden, codes, coeds, coned, cones, conus, coude, decos, douce, douse, duces, dunce, dunes, fends, feods, feuds, focus, fonds, fondu, found, funds, fused, nodes, nodus, nosed, nudes, onces, ounce, scend, scone, scudo, sonde, sound, uncos, unfed.

+1 letter: unfocused.

+2 letters: cofounders, confusedly, defocusing, unconfused, unfocussed.

+3 letters: confounders, defocussing, unconfessed, undercrofts.

+4 letters: confusedness, fecundations.

+5 letters: misfunctioned.