Originally from Middle English confused (“frustrated, ruined”), from Anglo-Norman confus + Middle English -ed (past participial suffix), from Latin cōnfūsus, past participle of cōnfundō; now equivalent to confuse (a back-formation) + -ed.
confused
- simple past and past participle of confuse
confused (comparative more confused, superlative most confused)
- (of a person) unable to think clearly or understand
2017 May 16, Jacqueline Howard, “‘Healthy’ foods have most of us confused, survey finds”, in CNN[1]:A new survey suggests that most Americans are confused about what counts as a healthy food choice.
- (of a person or animal) disoriented
- chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- making no sense; illogical
- embarrassed
unable to think clearly or understand
- Azerbaijani: çaşmış
- Basque: nahasi
- Bulgarian: объркан (bg) (obǎrkan)
- Catalan: confòs
- Cebuano: naglibog
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 困惑 (zh) (kùnhuò)
- Corsican: cunfusa
- Esperanto: konfuzita
- Finnish: hämmentynyt (fi), sekava (fi)
- French: person: désorienté (fr), perdu (fr), embrouillé (fr) (of a thought or idea)
- Georgian: დაბნეული (ka) (dabneuli), თავგზააბნეული (tavgzaabneuli)
- German: verwirrt (de), durcheinander (de), konfus (de), wirr (de)
- Greek: μπερδεμένος (el) (berdeménos)
- Ancient: ταραχώδης (tarakhṓdēs)
- Haitian Creole: konfonn
- Hungarian: zavart (hu)
- Igbo: ná mgbagwoju anya
- Japanese: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: inconditus
- Luxembourgish: duercherneen
- Macedonian: збунет (zbunet)
- Malay: keliru
- Persian: مشنگ (fa) (mašang)
- Plautdietsch: werr
- Portuguese: confuso (pt)
- Scottish Gaelic: tuathal, tro-chèile
- Serbo-Croatian: zbunjeni
- Spanish: confundido (es)
- Swedish: förvirrad (sv), virrig (sv)
- Tagalog: nalilito, hira (tl)
- Ukrainian: приголо́мшений (pryholómšenyj), ошеле́шений (ošeléšenyj)
- Winnebago: hokižac
- Yiddish: צעמישט (tsemisht)
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chaotic, jumbled or muddled
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- Azerbaijani: qarışıq, qarmaqarışıq, tərtibsiz, nizamsız
- Bulgarian: разбъркан (bg) (razbǎrkan), разстроен (bg) (razstroen)
- Catalan: confús (ca), embolicat (ca), envitricollat (ca), embrollat (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 混乱 (zh) (hùnluàn)
- Czech: zmatený (cs)
- Danish: forvirret
- Dutch: verward (nl), in de war
- Faroese: ørkymlaður
- Finnish: sekava (fi)
- French: embrouillé (fr)
- German: wirr (de), verwirrt (de), zerstreut (de)
- Greek: μπερδεμένος (el) (berdeménos), συγκεχυμένος (el) (sygkechyménos)
- Hebrew: מבולבל (mevulbal)
- Hungarian: zavart (hu)
- Icelandic: ruglaður
- Italian: confuso (it)
- Latin: cōnfūsus, turbidus
- Maori: whakapiki (of speech)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: forvirret (no), forfjamset (no)
- Plautdietsch: werr
- Polish: zakłopotany (pl), zmieszany (pl)
- Portuguese: confuso (pt), confundido (pt)
- Romanian: confuz (ro), haotic (ro)
- Russian: спу́танный (ru) (spútannyj), беспоря́дочный (ru) (besporjádočnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: tro-chèile
- Spanish: confuso (es)
- Swedish: rörig (sv), oordnad (sv)
- West Frisian: betiisd
- Winnebago: hokižac
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making no sense; illogical
- Azerbaijani: qarışıq, anlaşılmaz, dolaşıq
- Bulgarian: объркан (bg) (obǎrkan), безсмислен (bg) (bezsmislen)
- Catalan: confús (ca), incoherent (ca), sense solta
- Finnish: älytön (fi)
- French: incohérent (fr)
- German: wirr (de), verwirrt (de), unzusammenhängend, unsinnig (de), unlogisch, konfus (de)
- Italian: confuso (it)
- Romanian: confuz (ro)
- Russian: бессмы́сленный (ru) (bessmýslennyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: tro-chèile
- Spanish: confuso (es)
- Swedish: rörig (sv)
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