Antonyms for confuse
kənˈfyuzcon·fuse

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1. confuseverb

   Synonyms:
   flummox

2. confuseverb

   To thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.

   Synonyms:
   flummox

3. confuseverb

   To rout; discomfit.

   Synonyms:
   flummox

4. confuseverb

   To mix up; to puzzle; to bewilder.

   Synonyms:
   flummox

5. confuseverb

   To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.

   Synonyms:
   flummox

6. confuseverb

   To mistake one thing for another.

   Synonyms:
   flummox

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1. confuse

   Any sense of inferiority abashes, with or without the sense of wrong. The poor are abashed at the splendor of wealth, the ignorant at the learning of the wise. "I might have been abashed by their authority." Gladstone Homeric Synchron., p. 72. [Harper & Bros. '76.] To confuse is to bring into a state of mental bewilderment; to confound is to overwhelm the mental faculties; to daunt is to subject to a certain degree of fear. Embarrass is a strong word, signifying primarily hamper, hinder, impede. A solitary thinker may be confused by some difficulty in a subject, or some mental defect; one is embarrassed in the presence of others, and because of their presence. Confusion is of the intellect, embarrassment of the feelings. A witness may be embarrassed by annoying personalities, so as to become confused in statements. To mortify a person is to bring upon him a painful sense of humiliation, whether because of his own or another's fault or failure. A pupil is confused by a perplexing question, a general confounded by overwhelming defeat. A hostess is discomposed by the tardiness of guests, a speaker disconcerted by a failure of memory. The criminal who is not abashed at detection may be daunted by the officer's weapon. Sudden joy may bewilder, but will not abash. The true worshiper is humbled rather than abashed before God. The parent is mortified by the child's rudeness, the child abashed at the parent's reproof. The embarrassed speaker finds it difficult to proceed. The mob is overawed by the military, the hypocrite shamed by exposure. "A man whom no denial, no scorn could abash." Fielding Amelia bk. iii, ch. 9, p. 300. [Bell & Sons '71.] Compare CHAGRIN; HINDER.

   Antonyms:
   animate, buoy, cheer, embolden, encourage, inspirit, rally, uphold

   Synonyms:
   abash, bewilder, chagrin, confound, daunt, discompose, disconcert, dishearten, embarrass, humble, humiliate, mortify, overawe, shame

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1. confuse, confoundverb

   mistake one thing for another

   "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary"

   Synonyms:
   discombobulate, fuddle, fox, bedevil, obnubilate, throw, befuddle, blur, flurry, put off, confound, disconcert, mix up, jumble, obscure

2. confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulateverb

   be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly

   "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher"

   Synonyms:
   fuddle, dun, confound, befuddle, mix up, fox, booze, flip, frustrate, blur, cast off, jumble, thrust, have, make, switch, fob, throw, cast, crucify, flim-flam, obscure, flurry, torment, give, bemuse, drink, hold, put off, trick, shake off, throw off, pull a fast one on, throw away, play a joke on, play tricks, contrive, drop, play a trick on, bewilder, hurl, discombobulate, rag, project, disconcert, bedevil, shed, obnubilate

3. confuse, flurry, disconcert, put offverb

   cause to feel embarrassment

   "The constant attention of the young man confused her"

   Synonyms:
   fuddle, put over, confound, befuddle, set back, fox, turn off, sidestep, blur, jumble, dishearten, circumvent, discomfit, mix up, defer, parry, dodge, remit, elude, duck, skirt, obscure, flurry, prorogue, hedge, throw, put off, evade, discompose, table, upset, postpone, shelve, untune, hold over, disconcert, discombobulate, fudge, bedevil, obnubilate

4. jumble, confuse, mix upverb

   assemble without order or sense

   "She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence"

   Synonyms:
   discombobulate, throw, confound, mingle, bedevil, mix up, jumble, scramble, throw together, flurry, blur, obnubilate, disconcert, obscure, befuddle, stump, put off, fox, fuddle

5. confuse, blur, obscure, obnubilateverb

   make unclear, indistinct, or blurred

   "Her remarks confused the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intentions"

   Synonyms:
   fuddle, film over, slur, confound, befuddle, fog, fox, becloud, jumble, cloud, smutch, mix up, glaze over, flurry, bedim, blot out, dim, obscure, mist, blur, throw, obliterate, haze over, overcloud, smear, hide, put off, smudge, befog, veil, disconcert, discombobulate, blear, bedevil, obnubilate

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1. confuseverb

   Synonyms:
   disconcert, perplex, abash, fluster, embarrass, chagrin, pose, nonplus, bewilder, obfuscate, discompose, addle, obscure, confound, derange

How to use confuse in a sentence?

1. Daniel J. Boorstin:

   Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

2. Dwight D. Eisenhower:

   Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

3. Tausha Cordova:

   It’s going to confuse the kids and may even bring [gender confusion] on early.

4. Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi":

   It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals.

5. Nevadaand Mike Enzi of Wyoming:

   The IRS continues to confuse the stick with the carrot, rewarding their employees’ bad behavior with favorable outcomes, common sense would suggest that an employee who was fired for misconduct or poor performance shouldn’t be hired back, but the IRS’s outrageous and bewildering behavior continues to defylogic.

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