confused

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" and threw up their hands saying "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas; we're confused!

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Quick take

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"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of confused gathered in one view.

adjective

lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts"

adjective

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"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for confused.

adjective

lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts"

adjective

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"

adjective

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"

adjective

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

Example sentences

" and threw up their hands saying "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas; we're confused!

Of all the actions in any menu ever, "quit" is one of the few that I thought confused no one.

Lest anyone be confused by that headline, there are 6 other nonprofits in the current batch.

I've been using Git for years, even wrote a book on it and I still get confused by what it is going to do at times.

[3]~~~~~[1] There were some remarks in the article that just left me confused, such as:> They said I thought JavaScript was a bad language.

So first about the article:>>The notion of standard deviation has confused hordes of scientistsWhat an assertion!

A lot of people are very confused about FDAs position on this, said John Murray Jr., a software compliance expert at the agency.

So Barack Obama, the President of the US, was against gay marriage in 2008; I'm confused as to why he gets a pass here, but the head of Mozilla doesn't?

It means missing out on a certain class of submissions, but those are mostly a mess these days anyway because they get filled with people talking about the automatic title change and people confused about why the link was submitted and upvoted.

For the people who are genuinely confused, Jolla is a company that sells smartphones, their first smartphone is also called Jolla; it runs Sailfish OS, which is effectively a fork of the Meego operating system which Nokia used in its N9/N900 phones, before they switched to Windows Mobile.