English-Thai Dictionary

confuse

VT ผสม ปนเป กัน  confound puzzle pa-som-pon-pe-kan

 

confuse

VT สับสน  confound puzzle sab-son

 

confuse about

PHRV สับสน เกี่ยวกับ  สงสัย เกี่ยวกับ  งง ใน เรื่อง  sab-son-kiao-kab

 

confuse with

PHRV ทำให้ ผิดพลาด กับ  ทำให้ เข้าใจผิด กับ  mistake for take for tam-hai-pid-plad-kab

 

confuse with

PHRV ทำให้ สับสน กับ  ทำให้ มึนงง กับ  tam-hai-sab-son-kab

 

confused

ADJ ที่ สับสน  ti-sab-son

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONFUSE

v.t.[L. See Confound. ] 1. To mix or blend things, so that they cannot be distinguished.
Stunning sounds and voices all confused.
Every battle of the warrior is with confused noise. Isaiah 9:5.
2. To disorder; as, a sudden alarm confused the troops; a careless bookkeeper has confused the accounts.
3. To perplex; to render indistinct; as, the clamor confused his ideas.
4. To throw the mind into disorder; to cast down or abash; to cause to blush; to agitate by surprise, or shame; to disconcert.
A sarcastic remark confused the gentleman and he could not proceed in his argument.
Confused and sadly she at length replied.

 

CONFUSED

pp. 1. Mixed; blended, so that the things or persons mixed cannot be distinguished.
Some cried one thing, and some another; for the assembly was confused. Acts 19:32.
2. Perplexed by disorder, or want of system; as a confused account.
3. Abashed; put to the blush or to shame; agitated; disconcerted.

 

CONFUSEDLY

adv. In a mixed mass; without order or separation; indistinctly; not clearly; tumultuously; with agitation of mind; without regularity or system.

 

CONFUSEDNESS

n.A state of being confused; want of order, distinction or clearness. The cause of the confusedness of our notions is want of attention.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CONFUSE

Con *fuse ", a. [F. confus, L. confusus, p. p. of confundere. See Confound. ]

 

Defn: Mixed; confounded. [Obs. ] Baret.

 

CONFUSE

Con *fuse ", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Confused; p. pr. & vb. n. Confusing. ]

 

1. To mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision.

 

A universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confused. Milton.

 

2. To perplex; to disconcert; to abash; to cause to lose self- possession.

 

Nor thou with shadowed hint confuse A life that leads melodious days. Tennyson.

 

Confused and sadly she at length replied. Pope.

 

Syn. -- To abash; disorder; disarrange; disconcert; confound; obscure; distract. See Abash.

 

CONFUSEDLY

CONFUSEDLY Con *fus "ed *ly, adv.

 

Defn: In a confused manner.

 

CONFUSEDNESS

CONFUSEDNESS Con *fus "ed *ness, n.

 

Defn: A state of confusion. Norris.

 

CONFUSELY

CONFUSELY Con *fuse "ly, adv.

 

Defn: Confusedly; obscurely. [Obs. ]

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

confuse

con fuse |kənˈfyo͞oz kənˈfjuz | ▶verb [ with obj. ] cause (someone ) to become bewildered or perplexed: past and present blurred together, confusing her still further. • make (something ) more complex or less easy to understand: the points made by the authors confuse rather than clarify the issue. • identify wrongly; mistake: a lot of people confuse a stroke with a heart attack | purchasers might confuse the two products. ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘rout, bring to ruin ’): from Old French confus, from Latin confusus, past participle of confundere ‘mingle together ’ (see confound ). Originally all senses of the verb were passive, and therefore appeared only as the past participle confused; the active voice occurred rarely until the 19th cent. when it began to replace confound .

 

confused

con fused |kənˈfyo͞ozd kənˈfjuzd | ▶adjective (of a person ) unable to think clearly; bewildered: she was utterly confused about what had just happened | a very confused and unhappy boy. • showing bewilderment: a confused expression crossed her face. • not in possession of all one's mental faculties, esp. because of old age: interviewing confused old people does take longer. • lacking order and thus difficult to understand: the confused information supplied by authorities | reports about the incident were rather confused. • lacking clear distinction of elements; jumbled: the sound of a sort of confused hammering and shouting. DERIVATIVES con fus ed ly |-ˈfyo͞ozədlē |adverb

 

Oxford Dictionary

confuse

con |fuse |kənˈfjuːz | ▶verb [ with obj. ] make (someone ) bewildered or perplexed: past and present blurred together, confusing her still further. • make (something ) more complex or less easy to understand: the points made by the authors confuse rather than clarify the issue. • identify wrongly; mistake: a lot of people confuse a stroke with a heart attack | purchasers might confuse the two products. ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘rout, bring to ruin ’): from Old French confus, from Latin confusus, past participle of confundere ‘mingle together ’ (see confound ). Originally all senses of the verb were passive, and therefore appeared only as the past participle confused; the active voice occurred rarely until the 19th cent. when it began to replace confound .

 

confused

con |fused |kənˈfjuːzd | ▶adjective 1 (of a person ) unable to think clearly; bewildered: she was utterly confused about what had happened. • showing bewilderment: a confused expression crossed her face. • not in possession of all one's mental faculties, especially because of old age: interviewing confused old people does take longer. 2 lacking order and so difficult to understand: the confused information supplied by authorities | reports about the incident were rather confused. • lacking clear distinction of elements; jumbled: the sound of a sort of confused hammering and shouting. DERIVATIVES confusedly |kənˈfjuːsɪdli |adverb

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

confuse

confuse verb 1 don't confuse students with too much detail: bewilder, baffle, mystify, bemuse, perplex, puzzle, confound; informal flummox, faze, stump, fox, discombobulate, bedazzle. ANTONYMS enlighten. 2 the authors have confused the issue: complicate, muddle, jumble, garble, blur, obscure, cloud. ANTONYMS simplify. 3 some people confuse strokes with heart attacks: mistake for, take for, misinterpret as; mix up with, muddle up with, confound with.

 

confused

confused adjective 1 they are confused about what is going on: bewildered, bemused, puzzled, perplexed, baffled, mystified, nonplussed, muddled, dumbfounded, at sea, at a loss, taken aback, disoriented, disconcerted; informal flummoxed, clueless, fazed, discombobulated. 2 her confused elderly mother: demented, bewildered, muddled, addled, befuddled, disoriented, disorientated; unbalanced, unhinged; senile. ANTONYMS lucid. 3 a confused recollection: vague, unclear, indistinct, imprecise, blurred, hazy, woolly, shadowy, dim; imperfect, sketchy. ANTONYMS clear, precise. 4 a confused mass of bones: disorderly, disordered, disorganized, disarranged, out of order, untidy, muddled, jumbled, mixed up, chaotic, topsy-turvy; informal shambolic. ANTONYMS neat.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

confuse

confuse verb 1 there was no need to confuse students with too much controversy: bewilder, baffle, mystify, bemuse, perplex, puzzle, confound, befog, nonplus, disconcert, throw, set someone thinking; informal flummox, discombobulate, faze, stump, beat, fox, make someone scratch their head, floor, fog; N. Amer. informal buffalo; archaic wilder, gravel, maze, cause to be at a stand, distract, pose; rare obfuscate. ANTONYMS enlighten. 2 the points made by the authors confuse rather than clarify the issue: complicate, muddle, jumble, garble, make complex, make (more ) difficult, blur, obscure, make unclear, cloud, obfuscate; archaic embroil. ANTONYMS simplify. 3 a lot of people confuse a stroke with a heart attack: mix up, muddle up, confound; misinterpret as, mistake for, take for. ANTONYMS distinguish.

 

confused

confused adjective 1 children could be confused about what was going on: bewildered, bemused, puzzled, perplexed, baffled, stumped, mystified, stupefied, nonplussed, muddled, befuddled, fuddled, dumbfounded, at sea, at a loss, at sixes and sevens, thrown (off balance ), taken aback, disoriented, disconcerted, discomposed, troubled, discomfited, unnerved, shaken, shaken up, dazed, stunned, astonished, astounded; informal flummoxed, bamboozled, discombobulated, clueless, fazed, floored, beaten; Canadian & Austral. /NZ informal bushed; archaic wildered, mazed, distracted. 2 her frail and confused elderly mother: demented, bewildered, muddled, addled, befuddled, disoriented, disorientated, (all ) at sea, unbalanced, unhinged, senile, with Alzheimer's disease. ANTONYMS lucid. 3 the first confused reports of the massacre: chaotic, muddled, jumbled, unclear, untidy, disordered, disorderly, disarranged, out of order, disorganized, upset, topsy-turvy, at sixes and sevens; informal higgledy-piggledy. ANTONYMS clear. 4 a confused recollection: vague, unclear, indistinct, imprecise, blurred, nebulous, hazy, woolly, foggy, shadowy, dim, imperfect, sketchy, obscure, remote. ANTONYMS precise. 5 the bones lay in a confused mass: disorderly, disordered, disorganized, disarranged, in disarray, out of order, out of place, untidy, muddled, jumbled, in a jumble, in a mess, mixed up, chaotic, upset, haywire, upside-down, topsy-turvy, at sixes and sevens; informal higgledy-piggledy, every which way; Brit. informal shambolic, like a dog's dinner /breakfast. ANTONYMS neat.

 

French Dictionary

confusément

confusément adv. adverbe De façon confuse. : Le suspect répondit confusément aux questions des enquêteurs.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

confuse

con fuse /kənfjúːz /〖con (共に )fuse (注ぐ )〗(名 )confusion 動詞 ～s /-ɪz /; ～d /-d /; -fusing 他動詞 (!be ～dなど分詞形容詞用法については →confused , confusing ) 1 〈人 物 事が 〉〈人 〉を困惑 [当惑 ]させる, まごつかせる ▸ His explanation really confused me .彼の説明に頭がすっかり混乱した .2 〈人が 〉〈人 物 事 〉を混同する , ごっちゃにする ; 【人 物と 】〈人 物 〉を取り違える (mix up ) «with » ▸ confuse the authors of the same name 同名の著者を混同する ▸ Don't confuse credit cards with bank cards .クレジットカードと銀行のカードを間違えないように 3 〈問題 議論など 〉を (余計に )混乱させる , 理解しにくくさせる ▸ confuse the issue 問題を (余計に )混乱させる

 

confused

con fused /kənfjúːzd /→confuse 形容詞 1 〈人が 〉 «…に » 混乱した, 困惑 [当惑 ]した, まごついた «about , by , at » ; 記憶 [判断 ]力の衰えた, ぼけた ▸ get [become ] confused about the balance between work and home 仕事と家庭の両立にとまどう ▸ I felt totally [utterly ] confused .何が何だかさっぱりわからなかった .2 〈事 状況が 〉混乱した, あいまいな, ごちゃごちゃの .con f ú s ed ly /-ɪdli /副詞 当惑 [混乱 ]して, うろたえて .