What is the meaning of confused?

verb

• Mistake one thing for another.
  • usage: "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary"
  • synonyms: confuse, confound
• Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly.
  • usage: "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher"
  • synonyms: confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate
• Cause to feel embarrassment.
  • usage: "The constant attention of the young man confused her"
  • synonyms: confuse, flurry, disconcert, put off
• Assemble without order or sense.
  • usage: "She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence"
  • synonyms: jumble, confuse, mix up
• Make unclear, indistinct, or blurred.
  • usage: "Her remarks confused the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intentions"
  • synonyms: confuse, blur, obscure, obnubilate

adjective

• Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment.
  • usage: "obviously bemused by his questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt lost on the first day of school"
  • synonyms: baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at sea
• Lacking orderly continuity.
  • usage: "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts"
  • synonyms: disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected
• Having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity.
  • usage: "I frequently find myself disoriented when I come up out of the subway"; "the anesthetic left her completely disoriented"
  • synonyms: disoriented, lost
• Thrown into a state of disarray or confusion.
  • usage: "troops fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset"
  • synonyms: broken, disordered, upset
• Mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently.
  • usage: "the flood of questions left her bewildered and confused"