haze of confusion
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7.2
- noun
- I woke up in a haze of confusion, wishing the morning had not arrived quite yet.
Examples
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Only one thing shone like a beacon through Du-mont's haze of confusion: Larissa had to be found.
Fiction book (1992) -
Through the haze of confusion, he heard it calling... loss of traction, adhesion to ice... caught... trapped...
Fiction book (1994) -
After the sudden announcement, I found myself in a haze of confusion, unable to understand what had just happened.
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She struggled to think clearly, lost in a haze of confusion about the complex instructions.
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The unexpected changes left everyone in a haze of confusion, questioning what would happen next.
Synonyms
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1.8
A time when things are not organized and people do not know what to think or do
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6.0
A state of confusion that makes it hard to think clearly
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6.2
A state of confusion when your thoughts feel unclear
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6.7
Feeling confused about where you are, who you are, or what is real
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5.0
A confused, disorganized situation where things are not in order
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4.9
A state when a person cannot think clearly and feels lost
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8.2
A feeling of confusion that makes it hard to think clearly
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7.4
A state when thoughts are unclear and you cannot think well
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5.2
With much hurry and disorder
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7.9
A state of confusion where things are unclear or messy
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6.5
A feeling of not thinking or acting clearly
Antonyms
How Clear
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase meaning is directly derivable from combining 'haze' (a state of vagueness or mental fuzziness) with 'confusion' (inability to think clearly); the preposition 'of' simply links the two nouns. The metaphor of cloudiness/haze for unclear thinking is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the intended sense.
Etymology
The phrase haze of confusion uses the image of a thin cloud, a haze, around the mind that hides things and makes them hard to see. So, when someone is in a haze of confusion, they are 'unable to think clearly' and feel unsure.