What is another word for confusing?
995 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ kənfjˈuːzɪŋ], [ kənfjˈuːzɪŋ], [ k_ə_n_f_j_ˈuː_z_ɪ_ŋ]
The word "confusing" can be replaced with several other synonyms that would give the same meaning while making the text more interesting and diverse. Some of these synonyms are perplexing, bewildering, intricate, mystifying, disorienting, complicated, and convoluted. Each of these words has a slightly different connotation, but all of them give the idea of something that is not easy to understand or figure out. Consider using one or more of these synonyms in your writing to create a vivid description of a complex situation or idea while avoiding repetitive language.
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Similar words for confusing:
- difficult (adjective)
- obscure (adjective)
- unintelligible (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- baffling (adjective)
- devious (adjective)
- embarrassing (adjective)
- involved (adjective)
- perplexing (adjective)
- puzzling (adjective)
- complicating (verb)
- confusing (verb)
- deranging (verb)
- misinterpreting (verb)
Synonyms for Confusing:
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adj.
• difficult • obscure- clear as mud ,
- farout ,
- in conceivable ,
- in credible ,
- in decisive ,
- in definite ,
- in determinate ,
- in distinct ,
- in scrutable ,
- in soluble ,
- in-conceivable ,
- in-credible ,
- in-decisive ,
- in-definite ,
- in-distinct ,
- in-scrutable ,
- in-soluble ,
- un accountable ,
- un believable ,
- un defined ,
- un-believable ,
- un-defined .
- be wildering ,
- be-wildering ,
- difficult understand ,
- hard understand ,
- in comprehensible ,
- in-comprehensible ,
- more bewildering ,
- most bewildering ,
- most enigmatic ,
- over one head ,
- over ones head ,
- un clear ,
- un clearer ,
- un clearest ,
- un fathomable ,
- un-clear ,
- un-clearer ,
- un-clearest ,
- un-fathomable .
- de touring ,
- de-touring ,
- ex cursive ,
- ex-cursive ,
- flexuous ,
- mis leading ,
- mis-leading ,
- more confounding ,
- more detouring ,
- more digressing ,
- more digressory ,
- more twisting ,
- most confounding ,
- most detouring ,
- most digressing ,
- most digressory ,
- most twisting ,
- re moved ,
- re-mote .
- dis agreeable ,
- dis commodious ,
- dis concerting ,
- dis-agreeable ,
- dis-commodious ,
- dis-concerting ,
- ex asperating ,
- ex-asperating ,
- in commodious ,
- in convenient ,
- in opportune ,
- in-commodious ,
- in-convenient ,
- in-opportune ,
- inconvenient ,
- more compromising ,
- more discomfiting ,
- more discommoding ,
- more discommodious ,
- more disconcerting ,
- more distracting ,
- more exasperating ,
- more mortifying ,
- more rattling ,
- more troubling ,
- most compromising ,
- most discomfiting ,
- most discommoding ,
- most discommodious ,
- most disconcerting ,
- most distracting ,
- most exasperating ,
- most mortifying ,
- most rattling ,
- most troubling ,
- troubling ,
- un comfortable ,
- un easier ,
- un easiest ,
- un easy ,
- un propitious ,
- un seemlier ,
- un seemliest ,
- un seemly ,
- un-comfortable ,
- un-easier ,
- un-easiest ,
- un-easy ,
- un-propitious ,
- un-seemlier ,
- un-seemliest ,
- un-seemly ,
- uneasy ,
- unpropitious ,
- up setting ,
- up-setting .
- hightech ,
- mazier ,
- maziest ,
- more gordian ,
- more high tech ,
- more high-tech ,
- more hightech ,
- more ramified ,
- most gordian ,
- most high tech ,
- most high-tech ,
- most hightech ,
- most ramified .
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v.
• complicating • confusing • deranging- Botching ,
- Cluttering ,
- Convulsing ,
- Deranging ,
- Disarranging ,
- Discomposing ,
- Disheveling ,
- Dislocating ,
- Disordering ,
- Disorganizing ,
- Displacing ,
- Hashing ,
- Jumbling ,
- Messing ,
- Mislaying ,
- Misplacing ,
- Muddling ,
- Mussing ,
- Roughening ,
- Ruffling ,
- Rummaging ,
- Rumpling ,
- Scrambling ,
- Whisking ,
- agitating ,
- capsizing ,
- churning ,
- disturbing ,
- fermenting ,
- meddling ,
- mixing up ,
- perturbing ,
- rippling ,
- roiling ,
- scattering ,
- swirling ,
- tampering ,
- tossing ,
- tousling ,
- tumbling ,
- whipping .
Other synonyms:
- Dizzying ,
- arcane ,
- bureaucratic ,
- byzantine ,
- cerebral ,
- complex ,
- cumbersome ,
- disjointed ,
- esoteric ,
- fathomless ,
- finicky ,
- garbled ,
- high-flown ,
- highfalutin ,
- impenetrable ,
- incoherent ,
- incomprehensible ,
- indigestible ,
- inscrutable ,
- intricate ,
- kafkaesque ,
- knotty ,
- mind-boggling ,
- opaque ,
- recherche ,
- sophisticated ,
- tangled ,
- tortuous ,
- unaccountable ,
- unfathomable ,
- unintelligible .
- ambiguous ,
- baroque ,
- bewildering ,
- complicated ,
- confused ,
- contorted ,
- convoluted ,
- difficult ,
- dim ,
- fanciful ,
- fuzzy ,
- giddy ,
- inaccessible ,
- inextricable .
- fancy .
Other relevant words:
- abysmal ,
- abyssal ,
- acrobatics ,
- addled ,
- advanced ,
- affluent ,
- agitative ,
- airheaded ,
- alert ,
- alien ,
- angry ,
- anxious ,
- apart ,
- appalling ,
- assorted ,
- assortment ,
- astonishing ,
- astounding ,
- at odds ,
- at sea ,
- avoidance ,
- awe-inspiring ,
- awesome ,
- awful ,
- awing ,
- baffled ,
- baroque era ,
- baroque period ,
- baroqueness ,
- beating ,
- becloud ,
- bedim ,
- befog ,
- befuddled ,
- bemused ,
- besotted ,
- bewildered ,
- black ,
- blackening ,
- blank ,
- bleak ,
- bleary ,
- blind ,
- blind drunk ,
- blot out ,
- blotto ,
- blur ,
- blurry ,
- brisk ,
- broad ,
- broadcast ,
- broken ,
- brumous ,
- building complex ,
- bungled ,
- bunglesome ,
- busy ,
- busybodied ,
- cabalistic ,
- calico ,
- changeable ,
- chaotic ,
- churned-up ,
- churrigueresco ,
- churrigueresque ,
- circuitous ,
- circularise ,
- circularize ,
- circulate ,
- clean and jerk ,
- clean house ,
- clean-living ,
- cleanse ,
- clear ,
- cloud ,
- clouded ,
- clouding up ,
- clumsy ,
- cockeyed ,
- complicate ,
- composite ,
- confounded ,
- confuse ,
- consuming ,
- convolute ,
- coordination compound ,
- courteous ,
- crafty ,
- crapulence ,
- crocked ,
- cryptical ,
- cumbrous ,
- cunning ,
- dainty ,
- dark ,
- debacle ,
- debatable ,
- decent ,
- deceptive ,
- deep ,
- delphian ,
- demoralising ,
- demoralizing ,
- derisory ,
- detailed ,
- diffused ,
- dilate ,
- dimmed ,
- dip ,
- disconnected ,
- discrepant ,
- dislocated ,
- disorganised ,
- disoriented ,
- disperse ,
- dispersion ,
- dispiriting ,
- disseminate ,
- distort ,
- distorted ,
- distortion ,
- distressful ,
- distressing ,
- distribute ,
- dizzy ,
- dodge ,
- dodgy ,
- dousing ,
- drink ,
- drinking ,
- drubbing ,
- drunkenness ,
- dubitable ,
- duck hunting ,
- dull ,
- dumb ,
- eccentric ,
- elaborated ,
- eldritch ,
- elevated ,
- elusion ,
- elusive ,
- embarrass ,
- empty-headed ,
- encircling ,
- enlarge ,
- envision ,
- equivocalness ,
- error-prone ,
- escape ,
- evasion ,
- exalted ,
- expand ,
- expatiate ,
- exposit ,
- expound ,
- exquisite ,
- extraneous ,
- faint ,
- fair ,
- fairly ,
- falling ,
- falsify ,
- fan out ,
- fantastic ,
- fantasy ,
- faultfinding ,
- featherbrained ,
- ferment ,
- fermentation ,
- figure ,
- finical ,
- flagellation ,
- flakey ,
- flaky ,
- flesh out ,
- flocculent ,
- flogging ,
- flush ,
- fog ,
- foggy ,
- fondness ,
- formidable ,
- foxy ,
- freakish ,
- freaky ,
- fresh ,
- frustrative ,
- fuddled ,
- fundamental ,
- funny ,
- furious ,
- fussy ,
- fuzzed ,
- gauze ,
- gnarly ,
- go for ,
- gracious ,
- grand ,
- grandiose ,
- guileful ,
- hard ,
- haze over ,
- head over heels ,
- heavy ,
- hedge ,
- heels over head ,
- hi-tech ,
- hidden ,
- hide ,
- hifalutin ,
- high technology ,
- high-minded ,
- high-sounding ,
- highfaluting ,
- hirsute ,
- hoity-toity ,
- hot ,
- houseclean ,
- howling ,
- hugger-mugger ,
- idealistic ,
- idiotic ,
- ill at ease ,
- ill-chosen ,
- ill-defined ,
- illusion ,
- image ,
- imaginary ,
- imbue ,
- immersion ,
- implicit ,
- in great confusion ,
- in question ,
- inapt ,
- incertain ,
- inconceivable ,
- indissoluble ,
- inept ,
- inexplicable ,
- inflated ,
- insidious ,
- insolvable ,
- intangible ,
- intellectual ,
- interfering ,
- interpenetrate ,
- isolated ,
- jutting ,
- kabbalistic ,
- knavish ,
- knobbed ,
- la-di-da ,
- laden ,
- ladened ,
- lanate ,
- lashing ,
- laughable ,
- light ,
- light-headed ,
- lightheaded ,
- lissom ,
- lissome ,
- lithe ,
- lithesome ,
- lively ,
- lofty ,
- lost ,
- lucubrate ,
- ludicrous ,
- luxuriant ,
- make ,
- make clean ,
- many-sided ,
- marvellous ,
- marvelous ,
- mazed ,
- meddlesome ,
- merry ,
- mind-blowing ,
- mired ,
- misapprehension ,
- miscellanea ,
- miscellany ,
- misinterpretation ,
- misrepresented ,
- mist ,
- mistake ,
- misty ,
- mixed ,
- mixed bag ,
- mixed-up ,
- mixture ,
- moneyed ,
- mortifying ,
- multi-color ,
- multi-colored ,
- multi-colour ,
- multi-coloured ,
- multicolor ,
- multicolored ,
- multicolour ,
- multicoloured ,
- multifaceted ,
- multifarious ,
- mussy ,
- mutually exclusive ,
- muzzy ,
- mystic ,
- mystical ,
- mystifier ,
- neat ,
- nervous ,
- netting ,
- noble-minded ,
- nonsensical ,
- notional ,
- oblique ,
- obliterate ,
- obtuse ,
- occult ,
- odd ,
- off-the-wall ,
- officious ,
- oracular ,
- orphic ,
- out of the question ,
- outlandish ,
- outre ,
- overcloud ,
- overnice ,
- overpowering ,
- overrefinement ,
- painted ,
- parti-color ,
- partiality ,
- particolored ,
- particoloured ,
- particular ,
- pass around ,
- peculiar ,
- penetrate ,
- perfidious ,
- permeate ,
- pernicious ,
- pervade ,
- perverted ,
- phantasy ,
- pick ,
- picky ,
- picture ,
- pie-eyed ,
- piebald ,
- pied ,
- pissed ,
- pixilated ,
- plastered ,
- plum ,
- plumb ,
- potpourri ,
- preposterous ,
- preternatural ,
- prissy ,
- project ,
- projected ,
- propagate ,
- protruding ,
- provoking ,
- punic ,
- puzzle ,
- qabalistic ,
- queasy ,
- queer ,
- rale ,
- rambling ,
- rarefied ,
- rarified ,
- rarify ,
- rattle ,
- real ,
- really ,
- redoubtable ,
- refine ,
- relieved ,
- restless ,
- riddle ,
- ridiculous ,
- riffle ,
- ripple ,
- roiled ,
- roily ,
- roundabout ,
- rum ,
- rummy ,
- salmagundi ,
- scatter ,
- scattered ,
- scavenge ,
- scheme ,
- secret ,
- see ,
- separated ,
- shadowy ,
- shamble ,
- shambling ,
- shift ,
- shifty ,
- shuffle ,
- shunning ,
- sibylline ,
- silly ,
- singular ,
- sinuate ,
- skillful ,
- slaughter ,
- slick ,
- slip ,
- slithering ,
- slopped ,
- sloshed ,
- slow ,
- slur ,
- sly ,
- smashed ,
- smorgasbord ,
- snappy ,
- snarly ,
- soaked ,
- soft ,
- sound ,
- soused ,
- sozzled ,
- spanking ,
- spin ,
- sporting ,
- sportsmanlike ,
- sporty ,
- spread ,
- spread out ,
- sprinkle ,
- sprinkling ,
- squeamish ,
- squiffy ,
- staggering ,
- sticking ,
- sticking out ,
- sticky ,
- stiff ,
- straining ,
- strewing ,
- strip ,
- subdued ,
- sublime ,
- submersion ,
- substantial ,
- sundry ,
- supple ,
- switch ,
- take to ,
- tall ,
- tanning ,
- teaser ,
- tempestuous ,
- tentative ,
- terrific ,
- the absurd ,
- thick ,
- thrashing ,
- thwarting ,
- tight ,
- tongue-tied ,
- topsy-turvily ,
- torture ,
- tough ,
- tremendous ,
- tricksy ,
- tricky ,
- trouncing ,
- turbulent ,
- turning away ,
- twirl ,
- twist ,
- twisty ,
- unacceptable ,
- unaccessible ,
- unbelievable ,
- unclouded ,
- uncomprehensible ,
- unconnected ,
- uncontaminating ,
- unconvincing ,
- undecipherable ,
- undefined ,
- unearthly ,
- unenviable ,
- unexplainable ,
- unfathomed ,
- ungainly ,
- unimaginable ,
- uninfected ,
- unknown ,
- unlikely ,
- unlogical ,
- unmanageable ,
- unnoticeable ,
- unobjectionable ,
- unobtainable ,
- unordered ,
- unplumbed ,
- unprocurable ,
- unquiet ,
- unreliable ,
- unresolvable ,
- unsealed ,
- unsettled ,
- unsoluble ,
- unsounded ,
- unsung ,
- unsure ,
- untouchable ,
- unusual ,
- upset ,
- varicolored ,
- varicoloured ,
- variegate ,
- variety ,
- vary ,
- veil ,
- vertiginous ,
- very ,
- visualise ,
- visualize ,
- voluminous ,
- wakeless ,
- walloping ,
- wandering ,
- warp ,
- wavelet ,
- wealthy ,
- wet ,
- whipstitch ,
- whipstitching ,
- whirl ,
- white ,
- wiggly ,
- wild ,
- wind ,
- wispy ,
- wonderful ,
- wondrous ,
- woolly-haired ,
- woolly-headed ,
- wooly ,
- wooly-haired ,
- wooly-minded ,
- woozy ,
- work out ,
- worrisome ,
- worrying ,
- writhed ,
- writhen ,
- wyrd ,
- zippy ,
- zymolysis ,
- zymosis .
- Abashing ,
- Addling ,
- Bamboozling ,
- Bedeviling ,
- Bedevilling ,
- Befogging ,
- Blearing ,
- Blundering ,
- Bothering ,
- Circumventing ,
- Contriving ,
- Crucifying ,
- Daedal ,
- Daedalian ,
- Dazing ,
- Deferring ,
- Discomfiting ,
- Discountenancing ,
- Distracting ,
- Dunning ,
- Embroiling ,
- Flipping ,
- Flurrying ,
- Fobbing ,
- Fogging ,
- Foxing ,
- Fuddling ,
- Fudging ,
- Misting ,
- Nonplussing ,
- Parrying ,
- Postponing ,
- Remitting ,
- Shelving ,
- Slurring ,
- Smearing ,
- Smudging ,
- Tabling ,
- Tricking ,
- abash ,
- abstruse ,
- absurd ,
- amazing ,
- awkward ,
- befuddling ,
- bemusing ,
- bizarre ,
- blurred ,
- boozing ,
- botched ,
- captious ,
- conflicting ,
- contradictory ,
- curious ,
- daedalean ,
- darkening ,
- delphic ,
- disconcerting ,
- discouraging ,
- disheartening ,
- dismaying ,
- disordered ,
- disorderly ,
- disorganized ,
- disorienting ,
- dodging ,
- doubtful ,
- dropping ,
- dubious ,
- ducking ,
- eluding ,
- enigmatical ,
- equivocal ,
- erring ,
- flabbergasting ,
- foreign ,
- frustrating ,
- gnarled ,
- gordian ,
- hairy ,
- hazy ,
- hedging ,
- higgledy-piggledy ,
- hurling ,
- illogical ,
- impossible ,
- imprecise ,
- improbable ,
- incongruous ,
- inconsistent ,
- indefinite ,
- indistinct ,
- inexact ,
- inexplicit ,
- insoluble ,
- jumbled ,
- knotted ,
- labyrinthian ,
- labyrinthine ,
- loaded ,
- maze-like ,
- mazy ,
- messy ,
- mingling ,
- miscellaneous ,
- misleading ,
- motley ,
- muddle-headed ,
- muddled ,
- non-specific ,
- obliterating ,
- obscure ,
- off-putting ,
- overwhelming ,
- oxymoronic ,
- paradoxical ,
- problematic ,
- problematical ,
- projecting ,
- puzzling ,
- raging ,
- rattling ,
- recondite ,
- self-contradictory ,
- shambolic ,
- shuffling ,
- sidestepping ,
- sinuous ,
- skirting ,
- slipping ,
- snarled ,
- strange ,
- stupefying ,
- subtle ,
- switching ,
- topsy-turvy ,
- treacherous ,
- twisted ,
- uncanny ,
- uncertain ,
- unfamiliar ,
- unnerving ,
- unsettling ,
- unsolvable ,
- unspecific ,
- vague ,
- veiling ,
- weird ,
- wily ,
- winding ,
- woolly .
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How to use "Confusing" in context?
The word "confusing" has a simple, but complex, meaning. It can mean that something is making it difficult to understand, or that it is causing worries and doubts. For example, when your boss asks you to complete a difficult task, it can be confusing if you don't know what the requirements are. Or, when you're trying to figure out a new puzzle, the array of possible solutions can be confusing. In both of these cases, the difficulty in understanding results in frustration and stress.
Paraphrases for Confusing:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
perplexing.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
bewildering, disorienting.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
bemused, blurred, complex, conflicting, daunting, deceptive, difficult, disquieting, disruptive, distressing, elusive, embarrassed, equivocal, foggy, misguided, shocking, staggering, troubled, troublesome, troubling, unnerving, upsetting, weird, disorientating.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
baffling, blending, combining, disturbing, frying, locating, merging, misunderstanding, mixing, recovering, regaining, staggering, tracing, troubling, upsetting, Blurring, Harassing, Having, Violating, undermining, destabilizing, misremembering.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
ambiguous, baffling, chaotic, complicated, confounding, confused, contradictory, convoluted, cumbersome, disconcerting, disorderly, disoriented, disturbing, embarrassing, fuzzy, hazy, inconsistent, messy, misleading, mixed, obscure, off-putting, opaque, puzzling, specious, strange, tricky, uncertain, unclear, vague, woolly, Distracting, unsettling.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
confounding, disconcerting, misleading, Disrupting, Obfuscating.
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Adjective
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