Synonyms for muddle
ˈmʌd lmud·dle

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1. muddle

   Synonyms:
   fail, waste, fritter away, confuse, derange, misarrange

   Antonyms:
   clarify, manage, economize, classify, arrange

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1. clutter, jumble, muddle, fuddle, mare's nest, welter, smothernoun

   a confused multitude of things

   Synonyms:
   hole, jam, fuddle, jumbal, clutter, mare's nest, mess, patchwork, hodgepodge, smother, pickle, fix, jumble, kettle of fish, welter

2. fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fishverb

   informal terms for a difficult situation

   "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"

   Synonyms:
   tidy sum, smother, peck, mint, crush, plenty, lot, location, locating, localisation, raft, quite a little, passel, hole, fix, mare's nest, press, jam, pile, muckle, fixture, mend, golf hole, electronic jamming, good deal, maw, fixing, mending, sight, gob, trap, deal, pickle, flock, stack, kettle of fish, fuddle, wad, messiness, hatful, mickle, hollow, heap, great deal, mess, repair, clutter, mess hall, mass, jamming, batch, yap, mountain, welter, spate, mussiness, slew, localization, jumble, cakehole, muss, reparation, pot

3. muddle, puddleverb

   make into a puddle

   "puddled mire"

   Synonyms:
   wee, piddle, urinate, addle, wee-wee, micturate, pass water, puddle, piss, spend a penny, relieve oneself, take a leak, make water, pee, make, pee-pee

4. addle, muddle, puddleverb

   mix up or confuse

   "He muddled the issues"

   Synonyms:
   wee, piddle, urinate, addle, wee-wee, micturate, pass water, puddle, piss, spend a penny, relieve oneself, take a leak, make water, pee, make, pee-pee

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1. muddleverb

   Synonyms:
   make muddy, make turbid

2. muddleverb

   Synonyms:
   stupefy, fuddle, inebriate, make half drunk, make tipsy

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1. muddlenoun

   Synonyms:
   confusion

2. muddleverb

   Synonyms:
   confuse, fuddle, bewilder

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1. List of paraphrases for "muddle":

   confusion, imbroglio, mess, chaos, tangle

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1. J. G. Ballard:

   The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom. In terms of pollution, noise and human life, the price of that freedom may be high, but perhaps the car, by the very muddle and confusion it causes, may be holding back the remorseless spread of the regimented, electronic society.

2. Brian Gibbons:

   We do think that we'll see another leg down from here, but when you peel back the onion, we don't think defaults rates will be as bad as some people think, yes, there are about 20-25 names that could be in danger, but we think many of them should be able to muddle through over the next year.

3. Lloyd Blankfein:

   ( The) U.S. economy is not going off the rails, i'm generally sanguine. We muddle through. I think some of this is an overreaction to the overreaction of assets being so swollen.

4. Mark Cohen:

   The retailers who were wandering around aimlessly pre-pandemic are going to be substantially less likely to muddle through than they were before.

5. Steven Feldstein:

   These companies, particularly Apple, are really interesting because they have a lot more to lose, particularly given the amount of hardware that they sell in terms of iPhones as well as their manufacturing, i don't know exactly where they're going to end up... short of a lot of public pressure, it's easy to conceive of a scenario where they try to also muddle their way through.