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Muddled

Verb / ˈmʌdʌld / Another word for muddled — explore alternatives below. For syllable breakdowns and pronunciation, see this word on Syllablesworld.

Definition

confused; mixed up

Synonyms & similar words

wooly muzzy woolly woolyminded addle woollyheaded puddle addled muddle befuddled confused befuddled disoriented jumbled mixed-up puzzled scrambled tangled unclear disorganized chaotic discombobulated messed-up hazy misty cloudy foggy dazed flustered bewildered

Example sentences

  1. The teachers muddled explanation left the students confused.
  2. I was feeling muddled after staying up late to finish my homework.
  3. The recipe was so muddled that I had to guess the measurements.
  4. His muddled thoughts made it hard for him to make a decision.
  5. The politicians speech was muddled and hard to follow.

Quotes

  • Im muddled about what my motives are now. Even as we were making the pilot I was muddled about what my motives were.
  • My own emotions are a muddled confusion - wound around envy, love, anger, and resentment.
  • We have become a society that cant self-correct, that cant address its obvious problems, that cant pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that - for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati - we cant wake up from.

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