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What is the adjective for confuse?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs confuse, confuddle, confusticate and confuzzle which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

confused
  1. (of a person) unable to think clearly or understand
  2. (of a person or animal) disoriented
  3. chaotic, jumbled or muddled
  4. making no sense; illogical
  5. embarrassed
  6. Synonyms:
      7. bewildered, bemused, mystified, perplexed, puzzled, baffled, stumped, stupefied, astounded, befuddled, confounded, dumbfounded, astonished, dumbstruck, flummoxed, muddled, nonplussed, stunned, bamboozled, discombobulated, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, flabbergasted, flustered, fuddled, staggered, taken aback, thrown, disoriented, fazed, floored, rattled, unnerved, amazed, blown away, bowled over, clueless, in a dither, lost, overwhelmed, shaken, shaken up, shocked, speechless, startled, surprised, thrown off balance, troubled, at a loss … more
  7. Examples:
      8. “Everyone was confused as to how anybody could have an opinion as outrageous as his.”
      “He was confused after being intoxicated from drinking too much alcohol.”
      “Your honor, I submit that the testimony of the prosecution's star witness is entirely confused and unreliable.”
confuddled
  1. In a state of extreme confusion, especially when unable to solve a frustrating problem.
confusing
  1. difficult to understand; not clear as lacking order, chaotic etc
  2. Synonyms:
      3. ambiguous, contradictory, inconsistent, baffling, bewildering, complicated, misleading, perplexing, puzzling, unclear, muddling, mysterious, complex, impenetrable, inexplicable, intricate, involved, mystifying, unaccountable, unfathomable, befuddling, blurring, confounding, convoluted, difficult, disorienting, labyrinthine, unsettling, wildering, mistakable, muddlesome, Byzantine, difficult to understand, beyond one, clear as mud, enigmatic, obscure, cryptic, incomprehensible, abstruse, inscrutable, arcane, tangled, knotty, recondite, opaque, elaborate, paradoxical, equivocal, deep … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “I found his use of word salad to be thoroughly confusing and barely worth my attention.”
confusional
  1. (medicine) Characterized by confusion.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. confounded, baffled, befuddled, bewildered, puzzled, perplexed, addled, disturbed, confused, disoriented, disorientated, discombobulated, dazed, stumped, muddle-headed, muddleheaded, absent-minded, mixed up, not with it, at a loss, out to lunch, spaced out, at sea, muddled, at sixes and sevens … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The person suffering from a confusional state is not sleeping.”
      “They are similar to other arousal disorders that occur during deep sleep, such as somnambulism and confusional arousals.”
      “This so-called posttraumatic confusional state may last for an hour or so up to several days or even weeks.”
confuzzling
  1. (childish) confusing or puzzling
confusible
  1. Alternative spelling of confusable
confusable
  1. Able to be confused.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. mistakable, misleading, confusing, misconstruable, misinterpretable, misreadable, misunderstandable, false, deceptive, fallacious, spurious, specious, delusive, delusory, deceitful, wrong, inaccurate, illusory, deceiving, mock, beguiling, deluding, pseudo, distorted, sophistical, tricky, disingenuous, casuistic, ambiguous, evasive, misrepresentative, casuistical, unstraightforward, equivocal, confounding, bewildering, demagogic, catchy, perplexing, distracting, puzzling … more
confuddling
  1. present participle of confuddle
confusticated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of confusticate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. confuscated, confused, confounded, perplexed, beat, bewildered, baffled, puzzled, bemused, dumbfounded, flummoxed, mystified, stupefied, befogged, stumped, befuddled, bedevilled, bedeviled, flabbergasted, astounded, bamboozled, got, fuddled, fogged, disconcerted, discombobulated, nonplussed, vexed, fazed, overwhelmed, vext, amazed, addled, astonished, floored, foxed, dazed, gravelled, messed with one's head, mazed, posed, made someone scratch their head, graveled, buffaloed, wildered, caused to be at a stand, distracted, threw, thrown, gotten … more
confusticating
  1. present participle of confusticate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. confuscating, confusing, confounding, perplexing, bewildering, puzzling, baffling, bemusing, dumbfounding, flummoxing, mystifying, bedevilling, throwing, bedeviling, befuddling, stupefying, befogging, stumping, astounding, flabbergasting, flooring, addling, fuddling, discombobulating, getting, amazing, foxing, fogging, bamboozling, nonplussing, astonishing, disconcerting, overwhelming, vexing, fazing, dazing, throwing off, beating, making someone scratch their head, gravelling, buffaloing, graveling, causing to be at a stand, mazing, distracting, messing with one's head, posing, wildering … more
confuzzled
  1. simple past tense and past participle of confuzzle
  2. Synonyms:
      3. confused, discombobulated
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