995 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ kənfjˈuːzɪŋ], [ kənfjˈuːzɪŋ], [ k_ə_n_f_j_ˈuː_z_ɪ_ŋ]

Similar words for confusing:

• all (adjective)
• baffling (adjective)
• devious (adjective)
• difficult (adjective)
• embarrassing (adjective)
• involved (adjective)
• obscure (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• perplexing (adjective)
• unintelligible (adjective)
• confusing (noun)
• complicating (verb)
• confusing (verb)
• deranging (verb)
• misinterpreting (verb)
• other synonyms
• awkward
• other relevant words
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for confusing

Synonyms for Confusing:

• adj.

  • all (adjective)
  • confusing.
  • baffling (adjective)
  • most enigmatic,
  • hard understand,
  • un-clear,
  • un clearest,
  • in-comprehensible,
  • mystifying,
  • un-clearest,
  • un clear,
  • un-fathomable,
  • more bewildering,
  • un fathomable,
  • be wildering,
  • un-clearer,
  • most bewildering,
  • in comprehensible,
  • be-wildering,
  • un clearer,
  • over ones head,
  • difficult understand,
  • over one head.
  • devious (adjective)
  • ex cursive,
  • re-mote,
  • more confounding,
  • de-touring,
  • mis leading,
  • more digressory,
  • most confounding,
  • more digressing,
  • ex-cursive,
  • most digressing,
  • most digressory,
  • flexuous,
  • more detouring,
  • mis-leading,
  • most twisting,
  • de touring,
  • more twisting,
  • re moved,
  • most detouring.
  • difficult (adjective)
  • paradoxical,
  • meandering,
  • hard to solve,
  • enigmatical,
  • hard to explain.
  • embarrassing (adjective)
  • more discomfiting,
  • dis concerting,
  • in-convenient,
  • inconvenient,
  • in opportune,
  • most troubling,
  • in-opportune,
  • in-commodious,
  • un easiest,
  • un seemly,
  • un-easier,
  • dis agreeable,
  • un propitious,
  • un-seemliest,
  • more compromising,
  • un-comfortable,
  • un comfortable,
  • more discommodious,
  • more exasperating,
  • ex asperating,
  • dis-concerting,
  • un-seemlier,
  • un-propitious,
  • most discomfiting,
  • more distracting,
  • more mortifying,
  • most rattling,
  • more disconcerting,
  • dis commodious,
  • unpropitious,
  • more discommoding,
  • un seemlier,
  • most exasperating,
  • un-easy,
  • dis-agreeable,
  • most discommoding,
  • un easier,
  • in convenient,
  • more rattling,
  • un seemliest,
  • up setting,
  • ex-asperating,
  • most discommodious,
  • un-easiest,
  • in commodious,
  • un-seemly,
  • dis-commodious,
  • uneasy,
  • un easy,
  • up-setting,
  • most compromising,
  • most mortifying,
  • more troubling,
  • most disconcerting,
  • most distracting.
  • involved (adjective)
  • more high-tech,
  • more hightech,
  • more ramified,
  • more high tech,
  • hightech,
  • most high tech,
  • most gordian,
  • maziest,
  • most hightech,
  • more gordian,
  • most high-tech,
  • most ramified,
  • mazier.
  • obscure (adjective)
  • in soluble,
  • in credible,
  • farout,
  • in scrutable,
  • in-distinct,
  • in-scrutable,
  • un-believable,
  • in conceivable,
  • in-definite,
  • in-credible,
  • un believable,
  • in distinct,
  • in-conceivable,
  • un-defined,
  • clear as mud,
  • in-decisive,
  • in decisive,
  • in-soluble,
  • un accountable,
  • in determinate,
  • un defined,
  • in definite.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • perplexed,
  • baffling,
  • detouring,
  • mind-bending,
  • mazy,
  • obscure,
  • difficult,
  • beyond one,
  • high-tech,
  • difficult to understand,
  • Discommodious,
  • digressory,
  • over head,
  • hard to understand,
  • high tech,
  • devious,
  • perplexing.
  • perplexing (adjective)
  • mindbending,
  • more mindbending,
  • more mind-bending,
  • mind bending,
  • more mind bending,
  • most mind-bending,
  • most mindbending,
  • most mind bending.
  • unintelligible (adjective)
  • illegible,
  • enigmatic,
  • mysterious,
  • indecipherable,
  • cryptic,
  • unreadable.

• n.

  •
  • elaborate,
  • contorted.
  • confusing (noun)
  • puzzling,
  • unclear,
  • disorienting.

• v.

  • complicating (verb)
  • Tangling,
  • Entangling,
  • Snarling,
  • Involving,
  • Complicating.
  • confusing (verb)
  • Flustering,
  • clouding,
  • Obscuring,
  • mistaking,
  • Misconstruing.
  • deranging (verb)
  • Cluttering,
  • tousling,
  • Mussing,
  • Disordering,
  • Disarranging,
  • Messing,
  • Disorganizing,
  • Scrambling,
  • Dislocating,
  • tampering,
  • confounding,
  • Whisking,
  • Hashing,
  • Blurring,
  • Disheveling,
  • Jumbling,
  • Deranging,
  • disturbing,
  • Mislaying,
  • swirling,
  • Botching,
  • troubling,
  • tumbling,
  • meddling,
  • churning,
  • Misplacing,
  • Ruffling,
  • Discomposing,
  • scattering,
  • perturbing,
  • fermenting,
  • upsetting,
  • capsizing,
  • Rumpling,
  • tossing,
  • Roughening,
  • Convulsing,
  • rippling,
  • Muddling,
  • agitating,
  • Rummaging,
  • Displacing,
  • mixing up,
  • roiling,
  • whipping.
  • misinterpreting (verb)
  • misunderstanding,
  • twisting,
  • Distorting,
  • misquoting,
  • Garbling,
  • misrepresenting,
  • misreading,
  • Deforming,
  • misinterpreting.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • impenetrable,
  • incomprehensible,
  • byzantine,
  • arcane,
  • high-flown,
  • cerebral,
  • tangled,
  • garbled,
  • highfalutin,
  • opaque,
  • fathomless,
  • intricate,
  • knotty,
  • indigestible,
  • unfathomable,
  • cumbersome,
  • bureaucratic,
  • unaccountable,
  • incoherent,
  • tortuous,
  • esoteric,
  • finicky,
  • disjointed,
  • inscrutable,
  • unintelligible,
  • complex,
  • mind-boggling,
  • sophisticated,
  • kafkaesque,
  • recherche,
  • Dizzying.
  •
  • bewildering,
  • complicated,
  • dim,
  • confused,
  • inaccessible,
  • giddy,
  • ambiguous,
  • fanciful,
  • convoluted,
  • fuzzy,
  • inextricable,
  • baroque.
  •
  • involved,
  • nice,
  • dense.
  •
  • profound,
  • clean.
  •
  • fancy.
  • awkward
  • embarrassing.
  • Other relevant words:
  • intellectual,
  • pissed,
  • lashing,
  • expand,
  • bungled,
  • gnarly,
  • pernicious,
  • peculiar,
  • escape,
  • queasy,
  • grand,
  • baroque period,
  • guileful,
  • clouding up,
  • evasion,
  • wealthy,
  • sozzled,
  • hide,
  • overnice,
  • multi-color,
  • phantasy,
  • spanking,
  • pick,
  • wild,
  • circularize,
  • woolly-haired,
  • multifarious,
  • laughable,
  • broken,
  • clouded,
  • high technology,
  • multicolour,
  • meddlesome,
  • frustrative,
  • uninfected,
  • tough,
  • veil,
  • supple,
  • light-headed,
  • particolored,
  • dubitable,
  • dilate,
  • unusual,
  • overpowering,
  • terrific,
  • voluminous,
  • upset,
  • blank,
  • blind drunk,
  • skillful,
  • real,
  • astonishing,
  • bunglesome,
  • decent,
  • interfering,
  • jutting,
  • advanced,
  • crapulence,
  • squeamish,
  • dispersion,
  • inflated,
  • switch,
  • unobtainable,
  • unknown,
  • cleanse,
  • plumb,
  • misrepresented,
  • rummy,
  • flocculent,
  • snappy,
  • mystical,
  • anxious,
  • singular,
  • vertiginous,
  • faint,
  • dousing,
  • oracular,
  • tight,
  • ill-chosen,
  • clean and jerk,
  • unexplainable,
  • inept,
  • appalling,
  • go for,
  • shamble,
  • building complex,
  • bemused,
  • whirl,
  • dodge,
  • unearthly,
  • circuitous,
  • substantial,
  • wandering,
  • restless,
  • tentative,
  • grandiose,
  • sound,
  • unfathomed,
  • spread,
  • queer,
  • funny,
  • elusion,
  • envision,
  • hidden,
  • assortment,
  • unobjectionable,
  • sprinkling,
  • protruding,
  • bleak,
  • hugger-mugger,
  • mystic,
  • becloud,
  • demoralising,
  • mortifying,
  • sublime,
  • embarrass,
  • untouchable,
  • eccentric,
  • immersion,
  • hard,
  • dumb,
  • calico,
  • slopped,
  • varicolored,
  • stiff,
  • lucubrate,
  • dainty,
  • scattered,
  • debacle,
  • coordination compound,
  • unordered,
  • extraneous,
  • fundamental,
  • fuzzed,
  • preternatural,
  • abysmal,
  • broadcast,
  • prissy,
  • dispiriting,
  • pervade,
  • teaser,
  • torture,
  • fair,
  • unacceptable,
  • incertain,
  • misty,
  • moneyed,
  • sinuate,
  • hi-tech,
  • sloshed,
  • head over heels,
  • bewildered,
  • orphic,
  • wooly,
  • gracious,
  • luxuriant,
  • awful,
  • encircling,
  • crafty,
  • fuddled,
  • haze over,
  • dull,
  • awe-inspiring,
  • high-minded,
  • projected,
  • white,
  • variety,
  • particular,
  • hifalutin,
  • exposit,
  • soaked,
  • insolvable,
  • rum,
  • astounding,
  • marvellous,
  • detailed,
  • parti-color,
  • shift,
  • dark,
  • distort,
  • in great confusion,
  • slaughter,
  • sibylline,
  • consuming,
  • unmanageable,
  • dodgy,
  • abyssal,
  • unsoluble,
  • cockeyed,
  • woolly-headed,
  • sporting,
  • very,
  • unlogical,
  • multicolor,
  • multi-colored,
  • thrashing,
  • idealistic,
  • mixed-up,
  • awesome,
  • cunning,
  • falsify,
  • changeable,
  • alien,
  • freakish,
  • multicolored,
  • slithering,
  • varicoloured,
  • unimaginable,
  • hedge,
  • disorganised,
  • wooly-haired,
  • riffle,
  • ill-defined,
  • deep,
  • befuddled,
  • visualise,
  • la-di-da,
  • staggering,
  • foxy,
  • salmagundi,
  • wondrous,
  • fermentation,
  • baroque era,
  • drubbing,
  • churrigueresco,
  • apart,
  • plum,
  • zymosis,
  • muzzy,
  • partiality,
  • roiled,
  • hot,
  • mistake,
  • circulate,
  • falling,
  • rarified,
  • work out,
  • fantastic,
  • mired,
  • tall,
  • neat,
  • scheme,
  • unresolvable,
  • vary,
  • wet,
  • sporty,
  • disoriented,
  • enlarge,
  • distressing,
  • obtuse,
  • expatiate,
  • dimmed,
  • roundabout,
  • bleary,
  • lofty,
  • sprinkle,
  • strip,
  • busy,
  • snarly,
  • disconnected,
  • figure,
  • submersion,
  • ill at ease,
  • sundry,
  • lissom,
  • unsounded,
  • turbulent,
  • lightheaded,
  • mazed,
  • unsealed,
  • slip,
  • odd,
  • fan out,
  • broad,
  • tempestuous,
  • image,
  • flaky,
  • many-sided,
  • airheaded,
  • soft,
  • furious,
  • unquiet,
  • foggy,
  • sly,
  • permeate,
  • outre,
  • tricksy,
  • worrisome,
  • duck hunting,
  • rarify,
  • writhed,
  • penetrate,
  • inconceivable,
  • miscellanea,
  • take to,
  • wonderful,
  • pie-eyed,
  • churned-up,
  • interpenetrate,
  • kabbalistic,
  • make,
  • fantasy,
  • uncomprehensible,
  • oblique,
  • clear,
  • avoidance,
  • rarefied,
  • ripple,
  • twirl,
  • slow,
  • distortion,
  • writhen,
  • agitative,
  • sticky,
  • sportsmanlike,
  • spin,
  • rale,
  • tremendous,
  • addled,
  • besotted,
  • indissoluble,
  • provoking,
  • finical,
  • unreliable,
  • soused,
  • lithe,
  • officious,
  • light,
  • multifaceted,
  • equivocalness,
  • obliterate,
  • insidious,
  • intangible,
  • silly,
  • unclouded,
  • occult,
  • wyrd,
  • blackening,
  • straining,
  • busybodied,
  • unprocurable,
  • miscellany,
  • slick,
  • sticking,
  • heavy,
  • undecipherable,
  • convolute,
  • tongue-tied,
  • awing,
  • ladened,
  • misinterpretation,
  • cryptical,
  • shambling,
  • multicoloured,
  • mixed bag,
  • gauze,
  • sticking out,
  • confuse,
  • inapt,
  • qabalistic,
  • puzzle,
  • unnoticeable,
  • riddle,
  • nonsensical,
  • dislocated,
  • lissome,
  • rambling,
  • clean-living,
  • blot out,
  • cumbrous,
  • laden,
  • circularise,
  • exalted,
  • smashed,
  • high-sounding,
  • shuffle,
  • nervous,
  • brumous,
  • wiggly,
  • fog,
  • unbelievable,
  • really,
  • expound,
  • knavish,
  • confounded,
  • zymolysis,
  • idiotic,
  • blind,
  • subdued,
  • drinking,
  • woozy,
  • distorted,
  • refine,
  • mystifier,
  • highfaluting,
  • lithesome,
  • knobbed,
  • make clean,
  • complicate,
  • clumsy,
  • misapprehension,
  • turning away,
  • painted,
  • roily,
  • fondness,
  • churrigueresque,
  • noble-minded,
  • cloud,
  • drunkenness,
  • alert,
  • ungainly,
  • crocked,
  • elaborated,
  • multi-coloured,
  • beating,
  • strewing,
  • uncontaminating,
  • exquisite,
  • overcloud,
  • netting,
  • unlikely,
  • spread out,
  • squiffy,
  • whipstitch,
  • blur,
  • disperse,
  • featherbrained,
  • flogging,
  • rattle,
  • mixture,
  • flagellation,
  • variegate,
  • unsung,
  • lively,
  • unaccessible,
  • distribute,
  • preposterous,
  • mussy,
  • picture,
  • fussy,
  • freaky,
  • scavenge,
  • dip,
  • the absurd,
  • warp,
  • dizzy,
  • ridiculous,
  • flush,
  • shadowy,
  • relieved,
  • redoubtable,
  • see,
  • shifty,
  • undefined,
  • drink,
  • clean house,
  • wavelet,
  • empty-headed,
  • cabalistic,
  • whipstitching,
  • eldritch,
  • tanning,
  • perverted,
  • ferment,
  • unenviable,
  • wind,
  • particoloured,
  • deceptive,
  • picky,
  • tricky,
  • derisory,
  • piebald,
  • fairly,
  • discrepant,
  • formidable,
  • implicit,
  • demoralizing,
  • courteous,
  • imaginary,
  • overrefinement,
  • mixed,
  • propagate,
  • distressful,
  • mutually exclusive,
  • black,
  • multi-colour,
  • project,
  • pied,
  • diffused,
  • shunning,
  • blotto,
  • marvelous,
  • mist,
  • smorgasbord,
  • punic,
  • inexplicable,
  • slur,
  • thwarting,
  • houseclean,
  • faultfinding,
  • outlandish,
  • twisty,
  • howling,
  • mind-blowing,
  • angry,
  • visualize,
  • imbue,
  • unconnected,
  • heels over head,
  • hoity-toity,
  • lost,
  • notional,
  • acrobatics,
  • merry,
  • walloping,
  • blurry,
  • brisk,
  • unsettled,
  • at sea,
  • baroqueness,
  • disseminate,
  • out of the question,
  • error-prone,
  • bedim,
  • pixilated,
  • ludicrous,
  • hirsute,
  • potpourri,
  • separated,
  • secret,
  • trouncing,
  • assorted,
  • wooly-minded,
  • debatable,
  • unplumbed,
  • chaotic,
  • affluent,
  • unsure,
  • worrying,
  • baffled,
  • scatter,
  • befog,
  • wakeless,
  • plastered,
  • elusive,
  • flakey,
  • fresh,
  • perfidious,
  • wispy,
  • at odds,
  • topsy-turvily,
  • delphian,
  • pass around,
  • twist,
  • isolated,
  • elevated,
  • thick,
  • illusion,
  • composite,
  • unconvincing,
  • zippy,
  • flesh out,
  • in question,
  • off-the-wall,
  • lanate.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • disordered,
  • Daedal,
  • eluding,
  • sinuous,
  • higgledy-piggledy,
  • overwhelming,
  • misleading,
  • discouraging,
  • uncanny,
  • hurling,
  • Discomfiting,
  • doubtful,
  • wily,
  • erring,
  • Misting,
  • stupefying,
  • contradictory,
  • insoluble,
  • labyrinthian,
  • unsettling,
  • miscellaneous,
  • dubious,
  • disconcerting,
  • Discountenancing,
  • gordian,
  • Parrying,
  • strange,
  • Bothering,
  • sidestepping,
  • imprecise,
  • incongruous,
  • vague,
  • hairy,
  • labyrinthine,
  • Embroiling,
  • Fogging,
  • twisted,
  • Flurrying,
  • disheartening,
  • Dunning,
  • Tabling,
  • motley,
  • botched,
  • projecting,
  • darkening,
  • uncertain,
  • Befogging,
  • Postponing,
  • subtle,
  • absurd,
  • impossible,
  • Fuddling,
  • problematic,
  • disorganized,
  • awkward,
  • flabbergasting,
  • unnerving,
  • abash,
  • Smudging,
  • captious,
  • Abashing,
  • curious,
  • Addling,
  • foreign,
  • indefinite,
  • veiling,
  • Bedeviling,
  • abstruse,
  • hazy,
  • topsy-turvy,
  • dodging,
  • indistinct,
  • gnarled,
  • shuffling,
  • unsolvable,
  • inexplicit,
  • muddled,
  • muddle-headed,
  • recondite,
  • Distracting,
  • Blundering,
  • snarled,
  • shambolic,
  • Bedevilling,
  • maze-like,
  • oxymoronic,
  • Circumventing,
  • conflicting,
  • inconsistent,
  • Fobbing,
  • Daedalian,
  • knotted,
  • Remitting,
  • switching,
  • Slurring,
  • Bamboozling,
  • improbable,
  • Deferring,
  • ducking,
  • Contriving,
  • frustrating,
  • Blearing,
  • boozing,
  • dropping,
  • Crucifying,
  • unfamiliar,
  • Fudging,
  • Foxing,
  • Dazing,
  • treacherous,
  • bizarre,
  • jumbled,
  • skirting,
  • hedging,
  • self-contradictory,
  • illogical,
  • raging,
  • rattling,
  • winding,
  • Nonplussing,
  • equivocal,
  • non-specific,
  • messy,
  • daedalean,
  • amazing,
  • blurred,
  • off-putting,
  • disorderly,
  • unspecific,
  • inexact,
  • delphic,
  • befuddling,
  • bemusing,
  • Tricking,
  • loaded,
  • mingling,
  • slipping,
  • Flipping,
  • obliterating,
  • Smearing,
  • Shelving,
  • woolly,
  • dismaying,
  • weird,
  • problematical.

Paraphrases for Confusing:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    perplexing.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    bewildering, disorienting.

• Independent

  • 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.
  • 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.

• Other Related

  • 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.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    confounding, disconcerting, misleading, Disrupting, Obfuscating.