I finally found my way out of the confusing maze.
Source: tatoeba (30242)
Confusing
//kənˈfjuːzɪŋ//
Synonyms for "confusing" (55 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (17)
Related words (27)
Adjective(12 words)
Adjective(2 words)
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Synonyms
4 entriesRelated terms
5 entriesderived
3 entriesform of
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
58 translations across 34 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مُرْبِك adj (difficult to understand)
Belarusian
1 entries- заблы́таны adj (difficult to understand)
Bulgarian
1 entries- объркващ adj (difficult to understand)
Catalan
1 entries- confús adj (difficult to understand)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 含糊不清的 adj (difficult to understand)
- 撲朔迷離 /扑朔迷离 adj (difficult to understand)
Czech
1 entries- matoucí adj (difficult to understand)
Danish
1 entries- forvirrende adj (difficult to understand)
Dutch
3 entries- chaotisch adj (difficult to understand)
- niet duidelijk adj (difficult to understand)
- verwarrend adj (difficult to understand)
Esperanto
2 entries- implikanta adj (difficult to understand)
- konfuzanta adj (difficult to understand)
Faroese
1 entries- ørkymlandi adj (difficult to understand)
Finnish
1 entries- hämmentävä adj (difficult to understand)
French
3 entries- complexe adj (difficult to understand)
- confusant adj (difficult to understand)
- déroutant adj (difficult to understand)
Galician
1 entries- confuso adj (difficult to understand)
Georgian
1 entries- გაუგებარი adj (difficult to understand)
German
4 entries- irreführend adj (difficult to understand)
- missverständlich adj (difficult to understand)
- unübersichtlich adj (difficult to understand)
- verwirrend adj (difficult to understand)
Hebrew
1 entries- מבלבל adj (difficult to understand)
Hindi
1 entries- भ्रामक adj (difficult to understand)
Icelandic
1 entries- ruglingslegur adj (difficult to understand)
Italian
3 entries- che confonde adj (difficult to understand)
- confusionario adj (difficult to understand)
- poco chiaro adj (difficult to understand)
Japanese
1 entries- 紛らわしい adj (difficult to understand)
Kapampangan
3 entries- macabaligo adj (difficult to understand)
- makabaligo adj (difficult to understand)
- makalitu adj (difficult to understand)
Khmer
1 entries- ច្រឡំ adj (difficult to understand)
Malay
1 entries- mengelirukan adj (difficult to understand)
Mirandese
3 entries- ambaranhado adj (difficult to understand)
- ambrulhado adj (difficult to understand)
- cunfuso adj (difficult to understand)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- forvirrende adj (difficult to understand)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- forvirrende adj (difficult to understand)
Polish
2 entries- mylący adj (difficult to understand)
- zagmatwany adj (difficult to understand)
Portuguese
3 entries- confuso adj (difficult to understand)
- embaraçado adj (difficult to understand)
- embrulhado adj (difficult to understand)
Romanian
4 entries- confuz adj (difficult to understand)
- haotic adj (difficult to understand)
- zăpăcitor adj (difficult to understand)
- încurcător adj (difficult to understand)
Russian
2 entries- запу́танный adj (difficult to understand)
- сбива́ющий с то́лку adj (difficult to understand)
Spanish
3 entries- confusionario adj (difficult to understand)
- confuso adj (difficult to understand)
- enredado adj (difficult to understand)
Swedish
1 entries- förvirrande adj (difficult to understand)
Tagalog
1 entries- nakakalito adj (difficult to understand)
Turkish
1 entries- kafa karıştırıcı adj (difficult to understand)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
I was mixed up by the confusing explanation.
Source: tatoeba (49839)
The debate has been interesting, confusing, and sometimes horrifying.
Source: tatoeba (61977)
We tried to figure out the problem our professor had given us, but it seemed confusing.
Source: tatoeba (248590)
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