confusing

[ UK /kənfjˈuːzɪŋ/ ]
[ US /kənˈfjuzɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. causing confusion or disorientation
    being hospitalized can be confusing and distressing for a small child
    a confusing jumble of road signs
  2. lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity
    perplexing to someone who knew nothing about it
    a puzzling statement
    sent confusing signals to Iraq
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How To Use confusing In A Sentence

  • I don't think they play at all fairly," Alice began, in rather a complaining tone, "and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can't hear oneself speak and they don't seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them -- and you've no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there's the arch I've got to go through next walking about at the other end of the ground -- and I should have croqueted the Queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming! Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  • Words are confusing, but they're nothing compared to non-words, mainly because non-words lead to rash assumptions and misunderstandings.
  • Once all that is figured out, the most confusing factor in the equation must be pondered: playing time.
  • We must beware of the danger of confusing what is passionately and deeply wanted with what is a right.
  • Yet the confusing thing about her mania, says Todd, is her ability to remain articulate, clever and funny.
  • In front of the world's golf media, the 13-time PGA Tour winner gave a long, rambling and often confusing account of his own life and times.
  • This is a confusing game that resembles a cross between tennis and squash. Times, Sunday Times
  • The bridge can be a little confusing when conditions deteriorate, as it is draped in trawl net, but a diver can see and swim inside many parts of it.
  • I realize that this line of thought is, perhaps, too confusing and too disillusioning. Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: American Am-ness
  • It is only by confusing them that Atkins can hold that mathematics and physical reality are identical.
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