What is the meaning of disoriented?

verb

adjective

  • 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"
  • Socially disoriented.
    • usage: "anomic loners musing over their fate"; "we live in an age of rootless alienated people"
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