different between confuse vs confused
confuse
English
Etymology
Back formation from Middle English confused ("frustrated, ruined"), from Anglo-Norman confus, from Latin confusus, past participle of confund?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?fju?z/
- Rhymes: -u?z
Verb
confuse (third-person singular simple present confuses, present participle confusing, simple past and past participle confused)
- (transitive) to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand
- (transitive) To mix up, muddle up (one thing with another); to mistake (one thing for another).
- (transitive) To mix thoroughly; to confound; to disorder.
- (transitive, dated) To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
- (transitive, obsolete) To rout; discomfit.
- (intransitive) To be confused.
Synonyms
- flummox
- mistake
- See also Thesaurus:confuse
Related terms
- confused
- confusing
- confusion
Translations
See also
- discombobulate
References
- confuse at OneLook Dictionary Search
- confuse in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.fyz/
Adjective
confuse
- feminine singular of confus
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uze
Verb
confuse f pl
- feminine plural of confuso
Adjective
confuse f pl
- feminine plural of confuso
Verb
confuse
- third-person singular past historic of confondere
Latin
Participle
c?nf?se
- vocative masculine singular of c?nf?sus
References
- confuse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- confuse in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- confuse in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- confuse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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confused
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?fju?zd/
Verb
confused
- simple past tense and past participle of confuse
Adjective
confused (comparative more confused, superlative most confused)
- (of a person) unable to think clearly or understand
- (of a person or animal) disoriented
- chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- making no sense; illogical
- embarrassed
Synonyms
- (unable to think clearly or understand): puzzled, perplexed, dazed
Hyponyms
- often-confused
Related terms
- confuse
- confusing
- confusion
Translations
Anagrams
- foncused
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