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confusing

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • //kənˈfjuːzɪŋ//

difficult to understand; not clear as lacking order, chaotic, etc.

adjective

  1. 1

    difficult to understand; not clear as lacking order, chaotic, etc.

    Several sections in that book are really confusing.

    The Cleveland Clinic’s Sukol thinks the word “healthy” is confusing and should be replaced with the term “nourishing,” as some processed foods have been marketed as “healthy.”

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of confusepresent participle and gerund of confuse

Forms

comparative
more confusing
superlative
most confusing
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).