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MUDDLED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does muddled mean?
• MUDDLED (adjective)
The adjective MUDDLED has 1 sense:
1. confused and vague; used especially of thinking
Familiarity information: MUDDLED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Confused and vague; used especially of thinking
Synonyms:
addled; befuddled; muddled; muzzy; woolly; woolly-headed; wooly; wooly-minded
Context example:
woolly-headed ideas
Similar:
confused (mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently)
Context examples
Mas'r Davy, he added; answering, as I think, my look; you han't no call to be afeerd of me: but I'm kiender muddled; I don't fare to feel no matters,—which was as much as to say that he was not himself, and quite confounded.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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