Meanings
comparative more confusing · superlative most confusing
- difficult to understand; not clear as lacking order, chaotic, etc.
Several sections in that book are really confusing.
1 more example
The Cleveland Clinic’s Sukol thinks the word “healthy” is confusing and should be replaced with the term “nourishing,” as some processed foods have been marketed as “healthy.”
2017 May 16, Jacqueline Howard, “‘Healthy’ foods have most of us confused, survey finds”, in CNNSynonyms: muddlesome, mistakable, misleading, baffling, bemusing, befuddling, bewildering, cattywampus
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of confuse
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivedifficult to understand; not clear as lacking order, chaotic, etc.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivecausing confusion or disorientation
adjectivelacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Arabic مُرْبِك
- مُرْبِك (murbik)difficult to understand
Bulgarian объркващ
- объркващ (obărkvašt)difficult to understand
Catalan confús
- confúsdifficult to understand
Chinese Mandarin 撲朔迷離 /扑朔迷离, 含糊不清的
- 撲朔迷離 /扑朔迷离 (pūshuòmílí)difficult to understand
- 含糊不清的 (hánhú bù qīng de)difficult to understand
Czech matoucí
- matoucídifficult to understand
Danish forvirrende
- forvirrendedifficult to understand
Dutch verwarrend, niet duidelijk
- verwarrenddifficult to understand
- niet duidelijkdifficult to understand
- chaotischdifficult to understand
Esperanto implikanta, konfuzanta
- implikantadifficult to understand
- konfuzantadifficult to understand
Finnish hämmentävä
- hämmentävädifficult to understand
French complexe, déroutant
- complexedifficult to understand
- déroutantdifficult to understand
- confusantdifficult to understand
German verwirrend, irreführend
- verwirrenddifficult to understand
- irreführenddifficult to understand
- missverständlichdifficult to understand
- unübersichtlichdifficult to understand
Hebrew מבלבל
- מבלבל (m'valbél)difficult to understand
Hindi भ्रामक
- भ्रामक (bhrāmak)difficult to understand
Icelandic ruglingslegur
- ruglingslegurdifficult to understand
Italian che confonde, poco chiaro
- che confondedifficult to understand
- poco chiarodifficult to understand
- confusionariodifficult to understand
Japanese 紛らわしい
- 紛らわしい (magirawashii)difficult to understand
Malay mengelirukan
- mengelirukandifficult to understand
Norwegian Bokmål forvirrende
- forvirrendedifficult to understand
Polish mylący, zagmatwany
- mylącydifficult to understand
- zagmatwanydifficult to understand
Portuguese confuso, embrulhado
- confusodifficult to understand
- embrulhadodifficult to understand
- embaraçadodifficult to understand
Romanian confuz, încurcător
- confuzdifficult to understand
- încurcătordifficult to understand
- zăpăcitordifficult to understand
- haoticdifficult to understand
Russian сбива́ющий с то́лку, запу́танный
- сбива́ющий с то́лку (sbivájuščij s tólku)difficult to understand
- запу́танный (zapútannyj)difficult to understand
Spanish confuso, enredado
- confusodifficult to understand
- enredadodifficult to understand
- confusionariodifficult to understand
Swedish förvirrande
- förvirrandedifficult to understand
Tagalog nakakalito
- nakakalitodifficult to understand
Thai ที่น่าสับสน
- ที่น่าสับสนdifficult to understand
Turkish kafa karıştırıcı
- kafa karıştırıcıdifficult to understand
Cite this entry
confusing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/confusing
“confusing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/confusing. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “confusing,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/confusing.
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