Antonyms for muddle
ˈmʌd lmud·dle

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1. muddle

   Antonyms:
   clarify, manage, economize, classify, arrange

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

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1. • Roil

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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. muddlenoun

   Synonyms:
   confusion

2. muddleverb

   Synonyms:
   confuse, fuddle, bewilder

How to use muddle in a sentence?

1. Sean Coleman:

   We expect a muddle through economy rather than a recession this year, nonetheless, you could argue the high yield markets are pricing in a recession.

2. Sean Coleman:

   Despite recent market firmness, large deals still face resistance given the risk-off environment and weak technicals: fund outflows, buyers on strike and the slowing CLO machine, we expect a muddle through economy rather than a recession this year.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. John Kinsey:

   I don't think the expectations for earnings for (Canadian energy companies) are going to be very high, and because they were beaten up so badly that they will maybe just muddle through here.

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