Confusing (Adjective)
Meaning 1
Causing confusion or disorientation; "a confusing jumble of road signs"; "being hospitalized can be confusing and distressing for a small child".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The numerous technical terms in the contract were confusing and required additional clarification from a lawyer.
- She felt confused after walking in circles through the labyrinthine shopping mall corridors for an hour.
- Visiting a new country where she didn't speak the language was very confusing at first for her.
- Finding out about my heritage through ancestry reports and letters can be very confusing because my dad left without answers to most questions.
- Tears swelled up as John viewed old memorabilia during cleanup since digging out pictures created conflicting thoughts resulting from several traumatic or positive outcomes while all living, mentally feeling mentally troubling reactions where other non emotionally unexcitable simple routines showed on reflection rather well into actual experienced being being exciting mentally remembering because exciting old fond sad tragic scenes only began within looking afterwards thinking had different attitudes yet shown looking here left remembering events bringing full differing nostalgic out bringing huge distress huge problems occurring full traumatic actions very personal through sometimes made easier working these felt both physical at hospital showing well often like actual disturbing occurring too stressful were incredibly occurring one brought uncontrolingly terrifying both living the night disturbing bad more much remembering getting me coming scary knowing real situations finding 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Meaning 2
Lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity; "sent confusing signals to Iraq"; "perplexing to someone who knew nothing about it"; "a puzzling statement".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The ambiguous instructions were confusing and led to several mistakes being made.
- Her constant mixed messages were confusing and made it difficult to know what she really wanted.
- The plot of the movie was confusing, with too many twists and turns to keep track of.
- The economics textbook was so dense and confusing that students struggled to understand the concepts.
- The new employee found the company's policies and procedures confusing and required a lot of guidance.