| Main Entry: | mixed-up |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | confused |
Synonyms: |
baffled, befuddled, bewildered, come apart, confounded, dazed, discombobulated*, disconcerted, disorganized, disoriented, flummoxed, flustered, lost, muddled, out to lunch, perplexed, puzzled, stumped, thrown off balance |
| Main Entry: | complex |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | involved, intricate |
Synonyms: |
circuitous, complicated, composite, compound, compounded, confused, conglomerate, convoluted, elaborate, entangled, heterogeneous, knotty, labyrinthine, manifold, mingled, miscellaneous, mixed, mixed-up, mosaic, motley, multifarious, multiform, multiple, multiplex, tangled, tortuous, variegated |
| Notes: | something complex may be well-organized and logically constructed as well as subtle and intricate, while a thing that is complicated will have something irregular, perverse, asymmetrical in addition to fundamental intricacy; complex is more formal and technical (a problem in mathematics is complex) while something like personal life can be complicated |
Antonyms: |
clear, easy, evident, homogeneous, obvious, plain, simple, uniform |
| Main Entry: | disconcerted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | confused; shaken |
Synonyms: |
annoyed, bewildered, caught off balance, come apart, distracted, disturbed, embarrassed, fazed, flustered, in botheration, messed-up, mixed-up, nonplussed, out of countenance, perturbed, psyched-out, rattled, ruffled, shook-up, spaced-out, taken aback, thrown, troubled, unglued, unsettled, unzipped, upset |
Antonyms: |
calm, composed, concerted, soothed, unworried |
| Main Entry: | disconnected |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | confused; discontinuous |
Synonyms: |
broken, detached, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, inchoate, incoherent, incohesive, interrupted, irrational, irregular, jumbled, loose, mixed-up, muddled, rambling, separated, uncontinuous, uncoordinated, unintelligible, wandering |
Antonyms: |
attached, coherent, connected, continuous, intelligible, joined, understandable |
| Main Entry: | disoriented |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | confused, unstable |
Synonyms: |
adrift, all at sea, astray, bewildered, discombobulated, lost, mixed-up, not adjusted, off-beam, off-course, out-of-joint, perplexed, unbalanced, unhinged, unsettled |
Antonyms: |
balanced, oriented, settled, understanding, unpuzzled |
| Main Entry: | upside-down |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overturned, inverted |
Synonyms: |
backward, bottom up, bottom-side-up, confused, disordered, downside-up, haywire, helter-skelter, in chaos, in disarray, jumbled, mixed-up, on head, reversed, tangled, topsy-turvy, upended, wrong way, wrong-side-up |
Antonyms: |
right-side-up |
| Main Entry: | inverted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | upside-down |
Synonyms: |
backward, bottom up, bottom-side-up, capsized, confused, disordered, downside-up, haywire, helter-skelter, in chaos, in disarray, jumbled, mixed-up, on head, overturned, reversed, tangled, topsy-turvy, upended, upset, upturned, wrong way, wrong-side-up |
| Main Entry: | involute |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | complex |
Synonyms: |
Daedalian, byzantine, circuitous, complicated, composite, compound, compounded, confused, conglomerate, convoluted, daedal, elaborate, entangled, heterogeneous, intricate, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, manifold, mingled, miscellaneous, mixed, mixed-up, mosaic, motley, multifarious, multiform, multiple, multiplex, tangled, tortuous, variegated |
| Main Entry: | overturned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | upside-down |
Synonyms: |
backward, bottom up, bottom-side-up, capsized, confused, disordered, downside-up, haywire, helter-skelter, in chaos, in disarray, inverted, jumbled, mixed-up, on head, reversed, tangled, topsy-turvy, upended, upset, upturned, wrong way, wrong-side-up |