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Confusing   /kənfjˈuzɪŋ/   Listen
Confusing

adjective
1.
Causing confusion or disorientation.  "Being hospitalized can be confusing and distressing for a small child"
2.
Lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity.  Synonyms: perplexing, puzzling.  "Perplexing to someone who knew nothing about it" , "A puzzling statement"


Confuse

verb
(past & past part. confused; pres. part. confusing)
1.
Mistake one thing for another.  Synonym: confound.  "I mistook her for the secretary"
2.
Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly.  Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw.  "This question completely threw me" , "This question befuddled even the teacher"
3.
Cause to feel embarrassment.  Synonyms: disconcert, flurry, put off.
4.
Assemble without order or sense.  Synonyms: jumble, mix up.
5.
Make unclear, indistinct, or blurred.  Synonyms: blur, obnubilate, obscure.  "Their words obnubilate their intentions"





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"Confusing" Quotes from Famous Books



... he settled down when the voices of two men in loud conversation rose, immediately under his window. Now, when one is in the agony of trying to understand how it comes that a certain number of angles in one figure are equal to a certain number of angles in another, it is, to say the least of it, confusing to have to listen to a spirited account of a boxing-match between Jack Straight and the Hon. Wilfred Dodge; and when that account manages to get interwoven inextricably with the problem in hand the effect is likely to ...
— The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch • Talbot Baines Reed
... recognized as a classic, and it remains so to this day. It was a work of genius. Supplemented by elucidations and extensions, it served an admirable purpose in introducing my students to the things really worth knowing in modern history, without confusing them with masses of ...
— Volume I • Andrew Dickson White
... follow; whereas a slow speech confirmeth the memory, addeth a conceit of wisdom to the hearers, besides a seemliness of speech and countenance[732]." Dr. Johnson's method of conversation was certainly calculated to excite attention, and to amuse and instruct, (as it happened,) without wearying or confusing his company. He was always most perfectly clear and perspicuous; and his language was so accurate, and his sentences so neatly constructed, that his conversation might have been all printed without ...
— Life Of Johnson, Volume 4 (of 6) • Boswell
... beneficed clergy had fallen were repulsive to him, and his whole soul thirsted after that new revelation, as it were, which Colet's sermon had made to him. Yet the word heresy was terrible and confusing, and a doubt came over him whether he might not be forsaking the right path, and be lured ...
— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte M. Yonge
... Officer's voice continued. "All I do is make sure that no unauthorized person comes into Chilblains Base. Other than that, I have nothing but personal guesses and little trickles of confusing information, neither of which am ...
— Unwise Child • Gordon Randall Garrett


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