Synonyms for Confusion

Synonyms for "confusion" (346 found)

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Closest matches (70)

Noun(20 words)

mix-up muddle addling ambiguities anarchies ataxy bafflement balagan bamboozling befogging bemusement bewilderment cause chaoseschaotisch - dutchclassroom disarraycloudinesscomplete lack of orderconceptual misunderstandingconfusedness

abashment ado agitation aloofness ambiguity ambiguousness amorphia amorphism amorphousness anarchism anarcho-syndicalism anarchy antinomianism assortment ataxia babel baffle bafflement balk bashfulness

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bedlam befuddlement bewilderment blurriness bother botheration chagrin chaos check checkmate cloud clutter combining commotion confounding confoundment consternation contradiction coynesscriminal syndicalism

Adjective(6 words)

academic incoherencechaotic atmospherechaotic environmentchaotic layoutchaotic situationclear incoherence

Verb(4 words)

addle bamboozlecreate chaoscreate disarray

Strong matches (103)

Noun(35 words)

data scrambledazes dazing deliria delirium disarray disarraying disarrayment disarrays discombobulation disjointedness disorderdisorder the plandisorders disorganizationdisorganization in schooldisorganizationsdisorganize recordsdisorganizing disorienting

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dizziness flabbergast flabbergastation flabbergastment floundering flummoxing flurrying flustering flusters fogginess fogs fuddles fuddling grogginess hazes

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Adjective(2 words)

dense foggreat disarray

Verb(2 words)

flummoxes garble

Preposition(1 words)

in chaos

Related words (173)

incoherence inconsistency indecisiveness indefiniteness indeterminateness intermingling jam jumble lather license losslynch lawmaelstrom mayhem maze mess messiness misrule mist mistiness

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Noun(44 words)

italian confusionekelter kongfuze mazopathymental confusionmesses misarrangement miscommunication miscoordination misunderstandingmore unclearmost unorderedmuddinessmuddle the recordsmuddles muddling mussiness mystification noncomputationnone the wiser

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nonpluses obfuscationobscure the issueorganizational chaosorigin perplexities perplexity quagmire quandaries reelingromanian dezordineruckuses sourcestate of disarraystate of disorderstate of disorganizationstate of muddleswirling turbidness uncertainty vertigo welters whirling wooziness

Verb(3 words)

leave in disarraymisunderstand the instructionsmuddying

Adjective(9 words)

logical incoherenceorganizational disarrayprofessional jargonpronounced incoherencerandom chaossystemic disarraytotal chaosutter chaosutter disarray

Determiner(1 words)

no order

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

15 entries

causecognitive statecombination combining compounding disorder embarrassment error faultinformation probleminstruction problemmistake origin problemstate of mind

More specific

7 entries

ambiguous wordingconceptual confusioncontradictory instructionsincomplete directionsinformational confusioninstructional confusionprocedural confusion

Collocations

5 entries

confusion about instructionslevel of confusionlingering confusionsource of confusionstate of confusion

Inflections

1 entries

confusions

Derivations

2 entries

confuse confusional

Sample sentences

16 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Only after a century and a half of confusion was the royal authority restored.

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His confusion betrayed his lie.

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It was a terrible confusion; Sue slipped later in the water. They're all mad at you.

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The news created a lot of confusion.

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Confusion