Crossword clues for confused
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
confused \confused\ adj.
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same as confounded; as, bewildered and confused.
Syn: at sea, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, mazed, mixed-up.
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lacking orderly continuity.
Syn: disconnected, disjointed, disordered, disorganized, desultory, garbled, illogical, rambling, scattered, unconnected.
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thrown into disorder; as, His workbench held a confused assortment of spare engine parts..
Syn: disordered, in disarray, upset.
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having lost one's bearings physically or mentally.
Syn: disoriented, lost.
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not marked by fine distinctions. discriminate
Syn: indiscriminate.
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causing bafflement and confusion.
Syn: bewildering, confusing.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "discomfited, routed, defeated" (of groups), serving at first as an alternative past participle of confound, as Latin confusus was the past participle of confundere "to pour together, mix, mingle; to join together;" hence, figuratively, "to throw into disorder; to trouble, disturb, upset." The Latin past participle also was used as an adjective, with reference to mental states, "troubled, embarrassed," and this passed into Old French as confus "dejected, downcast, undone, defeated, discomfited in mind or feeling," which passed to Middle English as confus (14c.; for example Chaucer's "I am so confus, that I may not seye"), which then was assimilated to the English past participle pattern by addition of -ed. Of individuals, "discomfited in mind, perplexed," from mid-14c.; of ideas, speech, thought, etc., from 1610s. By mid-16c., the word seems to have been felt as a pure adj., and it evolved a back-formed verb in confuse. Few English etymologies are more confused.
Wiktionary
1 (lb en of a person) unable to think clearly or understand 2 (lb en of a person or animal) disoriented 3 chaotic, jumbled or muddled 4 making no sense; illogical 5 embarrassed v
(en-past of: confuse)
WordNet
adj. 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" [syn: baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at sea]
lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts" [syn: disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected]
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" [syn: disoriented, lost]
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" [syn: broken, disordered, upset]
mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently; "the flood of questions left her bewildered and confused" [ant: clearheaded]
Wikipedia
"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.
Usage examples of "confused".
Confused shouts came from abovestairs in the inn, and the pounding of running feet.
There were confused shouts and a long scream of pain from the tangle of amphicyons and armed men.
Mansion, Ross Barnett was, incredibly, continuing the totally confused comic opera of rebellion.
Confused, she turned to where Baumer had been, but he had moved away to one side, while one of the four had moved between Gina and the passage, blocking her retreat.
If there were no hives in the vicinity, these bees soon became confused and dispirited.
Leonato is half convinced, Benedick is puzzled and confused, and Hero faints.
He had not noticed Bernardine at first, and when he saw her, he became somewhat confused.
Romilly was too tired and confused even to know for certain what Betta meant.
BUKO Pharma-Kampagne of Bielefeld in Germany--not to be confused with Hippo in my novel--is an independently financed, undermanned body of sane, well-qualified people who struggle to expose the misdeeds of the pharmaceutical industry, particularly in its dealings with the Third World.
Perhaps Signore Lante was a bit tipsy and confused this citizen with this legendary Bigfoot he was here to hunt for?
But the birds in the mews where the tame ones were kept were only hunched forms on the blocks, fast asleep, and she felt from them only a confused silence.
With the loss of her blondeness came the fading of her confused alter ego and the revival of her true self.
In that way the Ferrarese school became somewhat complicated with the Bolognese school, and is confused in its history to this day.
She was confused, not only about Chuckles the bonesetter who specialized in gunshot wounds, but the whole of the river parishes.
On September 11, in a fierce, confused fight at Brandywine Creek, only twenty-five miles south of Philadelphia, Washington tried without success to check the advance of a superior enemy force.