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confused

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of confused

1 lacking in order, neatness, and often cleanliness
  • The cans were lying in a confused jumble in the basement.
Synonyms of confused

chaotic, cluttered, disarranged, disarrayed, disheveled (or dishevelled), disordered, disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, jumbled, littered, messed, messy, muddled, mussed, mussy, pell-mell, rumpled, sloppy, topsy-turvy, tousled, tumbled, unkempt, untidy, upside-down
Words Related to confused

bedraggled, befouled, begrimed, bemired, besmirched, blackened, cruddy, dingy, dirty, draggled, filthy, foul, grimy, grubby, grungy, mucky, nasty, smudged, soiled, spotted, squalid, stained, sullied, unclean, uncleanly

dowdy, frowsy (or frowzy), shaggy, slatternly, sloven, slovenly
Phrases Synonymous with confused

at sixes and sevens, out of joint
Near Antonyms of confused

antiseptic, clean, cleaned, cleanly, hygienic, immaculate, sparkling, spick-and-span (or spic-and-span), spotless, stainless, unsoiled, unsullied

methodical (also methodic), regular, systematic, systematized

careful, fastidious, finicky, fussy, meticulous

combed, groomed, manicured, well-groomed

taintless, undefiled, unpolluted, untainted, wholesome
Antonyms of confused

crisp, neat, neatened, ordered, orderly, organized, shipshape, snug, tidied, tidy, trim, uncluttered, well-ordered
2 suffering from mental confusion
  • I was briefly confused after my fall from the horse.
Synonyms of confused

addled, bedeviled, befogged, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, dazed, distracted, dizzy, dopey (also dopy), fogged, mixed-up, muddleheaded, muzzy, punch-drunk, punchy, shell-shocked, silly, stunned, stupefied
Words Related to confused

senseless, unconscious
Phrases Synonymous with confused

at sea, out of it
Near Antonyms of confused

alert, conscious
Antonyms of confused

clearheaded

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