[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

confused \confused\ adj.
   1. same as confounded; as, bewildered and confused.

   syn: at sea, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded,
        mazed, mixed-up.
        wordnet 1.5

   2. lacking orderly continuity.

   syn: disconnected, disjointed, disordered, disorganized,
        desultory, garbled, illogical, rambling, scattered,
        unconnected.
        wordnet 1.5

   3. thrown into disorder; as, his workbench held a confused
      assortment of spare engine parts..

   syn: disordered, in disarray, upset.
        wordnet 1.5

   4. having lost one's bearings physically or mentally.

   syn: disoriented, lost.
        wordnet 1.5

   5. not marked by fine distinctions. discriminate

   syn: indiscriminate.
        wordnet 1.5

   6. causing bafflement and confusion.

   syn: bewildering, confusing.
        wordnet 1.5
see also:
confounded discriminate 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

confuse \confuse"\, v. t. imp.  p. p. confused; p. pr. 
   vb. n. confusing.
   1. to mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished;
      to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or
      obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision.
      1913 webster

            a universal hubbub wild
            of stunning sounds and voices all confused.
                                                  --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. to perplex; to disconcert; to abash; to cause to lose
      self-possession.
      1913 webster

            nor thou with shadowed hint confuse
            a life that leads melodious days.     --tennyson.
      1913 webster

            confused and sadly she at length replied. --pope.

   syn: to abash; disorder; disarrange; disconcert; confound;
        obscure; distract. see abash.
        1913 webster
see also:
confused confusing abash 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

confused
     adj 1: 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
     2: 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
     3: 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
     4: 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
     5: mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act
        intelligently; "the flood of questions left her bewildered
        and confused" ant: clearheaded
see also:
baffled befuddled bemused bewildered confounded lost 
mazed mixed-up at sea disconnected disjointed 
disordered garbled illogical scattered unconnected 
disoriented broken upset clearheaded 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

251 moby thesaurus words for "confused":
   byzantine, abashed, abroad, adrift, afflicted, agitated, ajar,
   aleatoric, aleatory, ambiguous, amorphic, amorphous, anarchic,
   arsy-varsy, ass-backwards, astray, at a loss, at sea, baffled,
   baffling, baggy, balled up, balled-up, bashful, befuddled, bemused,
   beset, bewildered, blear, bleared, bleary, blobby, blurred, blurry,
   bollixed up, bothered, broad, cast down, chagrined, chance, chancy,
   chaotic, chapfallen, characterless, clashing, clueless, complex,
   complicated, conflicting, confounded, confusing, conscious,
   contradictory, convoluted, coy, crabbed, daedal, dark, dazed,
   demure, devious, dim, disarranged, discomfited, discomforted,
   discomposed, disconcerted, dismayed, disordered, disorderly,
   disorganized, disoriented, disquieted, distracted, distraught,
   distressed, disturbed, elaborate, embarrassed, embrangled,
   entangled, faint, featureless, feeble, filmy, flustered, fluttered,
   foggy, formless, fouled up, fussed, fuzzy, galley-west, general,
   grating, guessing, half-seen, half-visible, harsh, hazy,
   helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hit-or-miss, hugger-mugger,
   hung up, ill at ease, ill-defined, implicated, imprecise, in a fix,
   in a jumble, in a maze, in a mess, in a pickle, in a pother,
   in a pucker, in a scrape, in a stew, in a sweat, in a swivet,
   in a tizzy, inaccurate, inarticulate, inchoate, incoherent,
   inconsistent, inconspicuous, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite,
   indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable,
   inexact, inform, intricate, involuted, involved, jangling, jangly,
   jarring, jostling, jumbled, kaleidoscopic, knotted, labyrinthian,
   labyrinthine, lax, loose, lost, loused up, low-profile, lumpen,
   many-faceted, matted, mazed, mazy, meandering, merely glimpsed,
   messed up, messy, miscellaneous, misleading, misty, mixed up,
   mixed-up, mortified, motley, mousy, mucked up, muddled,
   multifarious, muzzy, mystified, mystifying, nondescript,
   nonplussed, nonspecific, not with it, obscure, off the track,
   orderless, out of countenance, out of focus, out of it, pale,
   perplexed, perplexing, perturbed, put off, put out, put-out,
   put-upon, puzzled, puzzling, ramified, random, rattled, roundabout,
   ruffled, scattered, screwed up, self-conscious, semivisible,
   shadowed forth, shadowy, shaken, shamefaced, shamefast, shapeless,
   shook, shuffled, shy, skimble-skamble, skittish, snafu, snarled,
   snarled up, stammering, stochastic, subtle, sweeping, tangled,
   tangly, timid, timorous, topsy-turvy, troubled, turned around,
   twisted, uncertain, unclear, uncomfortable, undefined, undestined,
   undetermined, uneasy, unordered, unorganized, unplain,
   unrecognizable, unsettled, unspecified, upset, upside-down, vague,
   veiled, warring, weak, without a clue

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