Usually means: Unclear understanding, lacking clarity, perplexed.
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  1. confused: Merriam-Webster
  2. confused: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. confused: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. confused: Collins English Dictionary
  5. confused: Vocabulary.com
  6. Confused, confused: Wordnik
  7. confused: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. confused: Dictionary.com
  9. confused: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Confused (song), Confused: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Confused: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. confused: Rhymezone
  13. Confused: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. confused: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. confused: FreeDictionary.org
  16. confused: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. confused: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. confused: Wiktionary
  19. confused: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. confused: Legal dictionary

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  1. confused: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confused: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. confused: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (confused)

▸ adjective:  (of a person) unable to think clearly or understand
▸ adjective:  (of a person or animal) disoriented
▸ adjective:  chaotic, jumbled or muddled
▸ adjective:  making no sense; illogical
▸ adjective:  embarrassed

Similar:
befuddled, addlepated, bewildered, dazed, perplexed, confounded, disoriented, baffled, muddled, mazed, more...

Opposite:
clear, certain, coherent, organized, lucid

Types:
bewildered, perplexed, disoriented, muddled, befuddled, addled, flustered, dazed, more...

Phrases:
confused elderly, confused flour beetle, confused deputy, Confused deputy problem, Eternally Confused and Eager for Love, more...

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Similar:
befuddled, addlepated, bewildered, dazed, perplexed, confounded, disoriented, baffled, muddled, mazed, more...

Opposite:
clear, certain, coherent, organized, lucid

Types:
bewildered, perplexed, disoriented, muddled, befuddled, addled, flustered, dazed, more...

Phrases:
confused elderly, confused flour beetle, confused deputy, Confused deputy problem, Eternally Confused and Eager for Love, American-Born Confused Desi, Keep Them Confused, Dazed and Confused, very confused, more...

Colors:
    gray,     mauve,     taupe,     olive,     chartreuse, more...



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