confusing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈfjuːzɪŋ/

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Adjective

confusing (comparative more confusing, superlative most confusing)

1. difficult to understand; not clear as lacking order, chaotic etc

   Several sections in that book are really confusing.

Synonyms

• muddlesome
• mistakable
• misleading

Derived terms

• confusingly
• confusingness

Related terms

• confuse
• confused
• confusion

Translations

difficult to understand

• Arabic: مُرْبِك (murbik)
• Belarusian: заблы́таны (zablýtany)
• Catalan: confús (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 撲朔迷離／扑朔迷离 (zh) (pūshuòmílí), 含糊不清的 (hánhú bù qīng de)

• Czech: matoucí
• Danish: forvirrende
• Dutch: verwarrend (nl), niet duidelijk, chaotisch (nl)
• Esperanto: implikanta, konfuzanta
• Faroese: ørkymlandi
• Finnish: hämmentävä (fi)
• French: complexe (fr), déroutant (fr), confusant (fr)
• Galician: confuso
• Georgian: გაუგებარი (gaugebari)
• German: verwirrend (de), irreführend (de), missverständlich (de), unübersichtlich (de)
• Hebrew: מבלבל m (m'valbél)
• Hindi: गड़बड़ (hi) (gaṛbaṛ)
• Icelandic: ruglingslegur (is)
• Italian: che confonde, poco chiaro, confusionario (it) m
• Japanese: 紛らわしい (ja) (まぎらわしい, magirawashii)
• Khmer: ច្រឡំ (km) (jrɑlɑm)
• Malay: mengelirukan
• Mirandese: cunfuso, ambrulhado, ambaranhado
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forvirrende

  Nynorsk: forvirrende

• Polish: mylący, zagmatwany (pl)
• Portuguese: confuso (pt), embrulhado (pt), embaraçado (pt)
• Romanian: confuz (ro), încurcător, zăpăcitor (ro), haotic (ro)
• Russian: сбива́ющий с то́лку (sbivájuščij s tólku), запу́танный (ru) (zapútannyj)
• Spanish: confuso (es), enredado (es) m
• Swedish: förvirrande (sv)

Verb

confusing

1. present participle and gerund of confuse