confusional

Examples

• All

• His confusional explanation left the audience more puzzled than before.

• The instructions were so confusional that nobody knew what to do next.

• This is confusional!

• The confusional state of the patient worried the doctors.

• The instructions were so confusional that nobody knew what to do next.

• His confusional explanation left the audience more puzzled than before.

• The new policy is written in a confusional way, making it hard to follow.

Synonyms

C

confusing

vsconfusional

276 3.2

Hard to understand and makes people feel unsure

is the general idea of producing confusion rather than specific examples

U

unclear

vsconfusional

207 3.9

Not easy to understand or know for sure

means actively producing confusion rather than merely lacking clarity

I

incomprehensible

vsconfusional

46 8.8

Difficult or impossible to understand

covers making something hard to follow but not always utterly impossible

O

obscure

vsconfusional

28 8.2

Hard to understand because it is unclear or complex

is about causing confusion, not only complexity or vagueness

B

baffling

vsconfusional

27 6.4

Hard to understand and causing confusion

means causing confusion but can be less extreme than impossible to grasp

P

perplexing

vsconfusional

16 6.7

Making people feel confused because it is hard to understand

is the broad act of producing confusion rather than a specific puzzling cause

B

bewildering

vsconfusional

13 5.2

Causing a lot of confusion and making things hard to understand

is similar but can describe milder forms of causing confusion

M

muddled

vsconfusional

7 5.4

Confused and not in clear order so hard to understand

describes causing confusion generally, not only lack of order

C

confounding

vsconfusional

1 7.7

Making people confused and things hard to understand

focuses on causing confusion without necessarily being contradictory

O

obfuscatory

vsconfusional

• Formal

1 9.3

Making something hard to understand on purpose to hide the truth

refers to causing confusion without implying intentional obscuring

U

uninterpretable

vsconfusional

1 8.2

Not possible to understand or explain

denotes causing confusion yet allows partial understanding sometimes

M

mystificatory

vsconfusional

• Formal

9.9

Causing confusion on purpose

is about producing confusion but not necessarily done on purpose

C

cryptical

vsconfusional

• Archaic

9.9

Hard to understand because it has a hidden meaning

focuses on causing confusion broadly, not on mysterious or hidden meaning

Antonyms

C

clarifying

1 3.3

That helps people understand something more clearly

How Confusing

baffling

27 6.4

perplexing

16 6.7

confusing

276 3.2

confusional

8.2

unclear

207 3.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology