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addlepated

adjective

ˈa-dᵊl-ˌpā-təd How to pronounce addlepated (audio)
Definition of addlepatednext
as in dazed
suffering from mental confusion some addlepated clerk had confused our hotel reservation with that of another, similarly named, party

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for addlepated
  1. dazed
  2. bewildered
  3. distracted
  4. confused
  5. stunned
  6. dizzy
  7. addled
Adjective
  • Laiken Randolph appeared dazed, and possibly on drugs, officers remarked.
    — Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Hsu maps a Los Angeles of leftovers and castoffs; portraits of friends and strangers in the street are full of dazed, inscrutable expressions.
    — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of dazed
Adjective
  • Five o’clock Saturday, the Riverside Stadium and Middlesbrough head coach Kim Hellberg is fist-pumping a half-bewildered but fully enthused home crowd.
    — Michael Walker, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
  • When kids first got online, parents were bewildered and alarmed, but kids, who tend to gravitate to new technology, found freedom in a space that was basically ungoverned.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of bewildered
Adjective
  • This is a film that allows, wants, even demands that the viewer become distracted, tired, and fidgety.
    — Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2026
  • The driver was cited with distracted driving and failure to maintain a lane, and an internal investigation by MARTA has been launched, police said.
    — Irene Wright, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of distracted
Adjective
  • Call them wrong, or confused, or uninformed, but these are the voters who decide elections.
    — Isaac Arnsdorf, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The Londoner walked away looking only slightly less confused.
    — Taylor Eldridge, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of confused
Adjective
  • King seemed stunned that an actual Black person had views that did not conform to her preconception of what a Black man should think.
    — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2026
  • So stunned was Sarkisian that the 52-year-old coach completely forgot how to form big-boy words with his mouth.
    — Candace Buckner, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of stunned
Adjective
  • What that film didn’t foretell was the Pakistani-American director’s fluent command of dizzy action setpieces.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Several other instances of illness linked to the MBG program have cropped up, including a group of 15 elementary schoolers and a school principal who became nauseous and dizzy after a meal in the Aceh province’s Bener Meriah regency, per the AP.
    — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of dizzy
Adjective
  • The book marshalled substantial scientific evidence, and reinforced the intuitions of parents dismayed by their phone-addled children.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Two, why that money was not disbursed by a previous trustee to the addiction- addled Reiner at that time.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of addled
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“Addlepated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/addlepated. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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