baffled - 'Baffled' means completely stumped, you've tried to make sense of it and failed. It carries a note of exasperation.
bewildered - 'Bewildered' implies being lost, your mental map has failed and you don't even know which direction to start looking.
disoriented - 'Disoriented' is physical or spatial, you've lost your sense of direction or context. It's confusion about where you are, not just what's happening.
perplexed - 'Perplexed' is deeper than puzzled, something genuinely doesn't add up. There's a hint of frustration alongside the confusion.
puzzled - 'Puzzled' is lighter, it's confusion with a sense of intrigue. A puzzle has a solution, and 'puzzled' suggests you're willing to find it.

Related word relations

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8 relation types

More specific

1 entries

often-confused

Antonyms

1 entries

clearheaded

Synonyms

5 entries

bewildered disconnected disordered disoriented puzzled

Related terms

4 entries

complex confuse confusing confusion

derived

10 entries

I'm confused confuddled confused deputy confused flour beetle confusedly confusedness foncused inconfused nipple-confused nonconfused

form of

1 entries

confuse

related to

11 entries

chaotic confuse confusing confusion disoriented embarrassed illogical jumbled muddled perplexed sense

similar

38 entries

addlebrained addled addlepated befogged befuddled clouded dazed dazzled disorganised disorganized incoherent muddled muddleheaded

Showing 16 of 38 words.

Translations

149 translations across 49 languages.

Ancient Greek

2 entries

ταραχώδης adj (unable to think clearly or understand)
ταραχώδης adj (disoriented)

Azerbaijani

4 entries

anlaşılmaz adj (making no sense; illogical)
dolaşıq adj (making no sense; illogical)
nizamsız adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)
qarmaqarışıq adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)

Basque

1 entries

nahasi adj (unable to think clearly or understand)

Bulgarian

4 entries

безсмислен adj (making no sense; illogical)
объркан adj (unable to think clearly or understand)
объркан adj (disoriented)
объркан adj (making no sense; illogical)

Catalan

4 entries

avergonyida adj (embarrassed)
avergonyit adj (embarrassed)
confòs adj (unable to think clearly or understand)
confús adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)

Cebuano

1 entries

naglibog adj (unable to think clearly or understand)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

困惑 adj (unable to think clearly or understand)
混乱 adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)

Corsican

1 entries

cunfusa adj (unable to think clearly or understand)

Czech

1 entries

zmatený adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)

Danish

1 entries

forvirret adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)

Dutch

2 entries

in de war adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)
verward adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)

Esperanto

2 entries

konfuza adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)
konfuzita adj (unable to think clearly or understand)

Faroese

1 entries

ørkymlaður adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)

Finnish

4 entries

hämmentynyt adj (unable to think clearly or understand)
hämmentynyt adj (embarrassed)
sekava adj (unable to think clearly or understand)
sekava adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)

French

4 entries

désorienté adj (unable to think clearly or understand)
désorienté adj (disoriented)
embarrassé adj (embarrassed)
embrouillé adj (unable to think clearly or understand)

Georgian

2 entries

დაბნეული adj (unable to think clearly or understand)
თავგზააბნეული adj (unable to think clearly or understand)

German

4 entries

beschämt adj (embarrassed)
desorientiert adj (disoriented)
durcheinander adj (unable to think clearly or understand)
konfus adj (unable to think clearly or understand)

Greek

4 entries

αμήχανος adj (embarrassed)
μπερδεμένος adj (unable to think clearly or understand)
μπερδεμένος adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)
συγκεχυμένος adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)

Haitian Creole

1 entries

konfonn adj (unable to think clearly or understand)

Hebrew

1 entries

מבולבל adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)

Hindi

1 entries

भ्रमित adj (unable to think clearly or understand)

Hungarian

3 entries

zavarodott adj (disoriented)
zavart adj (unable to think clearly or understand)
zavart adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)

Icelandic

1 entries

ruglaður adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)

Igbo

1 entries

ná mgbagwoju anya adj (unable to think clearly or understand)

Italian

3 entries

confuso adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)
confuso adj (making no sense; illogical)
confuso adj (embarrassed)

Latin

3 entries

cōnfūsus adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)
inconditus adj (unable to think clearly or understand)
turbidus adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)

Luxembourgish

1 entries

duercherneen adj (unable to think clearly or understand)

Macedonian

1 entries

збунет adj (unable to think clearly or understand)

Malay

1 entries

keliru adj (unable to think clearly or understand)

Māori

4 entries

kutekute adj (disoriented)
pōrangirangi adj (disoriented)
pōraru (raru) adj (disoriented)
rarerare adj (disoriented)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries

forfjamset adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)
forvirret adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

شاشقین adj (unable to think clearly or understand)

Persian

1 entries

مشنگ adj (unable to think clearly or understand)

Plautdietsch

3 entries

werr adj (unable to think clearly or understand)
werr adj (disoriented)
werr adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)

Polish

3 entries

zakłopotany adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)
zdezorientowany adj (disoriented)
zmieszany adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)

Portuguese

3 entries

confundido adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)
confuso adj (unable to think clearly or understand)
confuso adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)

Romanian

4 entries

confuz adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)
confuz adj (making no sense; illogical)
confuz adj (embarrassed)
haotic adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)

Russian

4 entries

беспоря́дочный adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)
бессмы́сленный adj (making no sense; illogical)
сконфу́женный adj (embarrassed)
смущённый adj (embarrassed)

Scottish Gaelic

4 entries

tro-chèile adj (unable to think clearly or understand)
tro-chèile adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)
tro-chèile adj (making no sense; illogical)
tro-chèile adj (embarrassed)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries

zbunjeni adj (unable to think clearly or understand)

Spanish

4 entries

confundido adj (unable to think clearly or understand)
confundido adj (disoriented)
confuso adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)
confuso adj (making no sense; illogical)

Swedish

4 entries

förvirrad adj (unable to think clearly or understand)
förvirrad adj (disoriented)
oordnad adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)
rörig adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)

Tagalog

2 entries

hira adj (unable to think clearly or understand)
nalilito adj (unable to think clearly or understand)

Thai

2 entries

มึนงง adj (disoriented)
สับสน adj (unable to think clearly or understand)

Turkish

2 entries

şaşkın adj (unable to think clearly or understand)
şaşırmış adj (unable to think clearly or understand)

Ukrainian

2 entries

ошеле́шений adj (unable to think clearly or understand)
приголо́мшений adj (unable to think clearly or understand)

West-Frisian

1 entries

betiisd adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)

Winnebago

2 entries

hokižac adj (unable to think clearly or understand)
hokižac adj (chaotic, jumbled or muddled)

Yiddish

1 entries

צעמישט adj (unable to think clearly or understand)

Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I am confused by your frenzied behaviour.

Source: tatoeba (18961)

Mr Hashimoto was confused by Ken's question.

Source: tatoeba (18967)

Computers are difficult, so I get confused.

Source: tatoeba (54550)

Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism.

Source: tatoeba (241381)

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