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say it: MUHD-uhld
muddled is an adjective meaning "confused and vague; used especially of thinking". It is pronounced /ˈmʌdəld/ — MUHD-uhld. It carries one recorded sense.
confused and vague; used especially of thinking
“muddleheaded ideas”
“your addled little brain”
“woolly thinking”
“woolly-headed ideas”
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 muddled 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.