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confused is an adjective meaning "perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment". It carries 5 recorded senses.
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”
lacking orderly continuity
“a confused set of instructions”
“a confused dream about the end of the world”
“disconnected fragments of a story”
“scattered thoughts”
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”
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”
mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently
“the flood of questions left her bewildered and confused”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for confused come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.