confusing
adj/kənˈfjuːzɪŋ/
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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.”2017 May 16, Jacqueline Howard, “‘Healthy’ foods have most of us confused, survey finds”, in CNN:
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muddlesome, mistakable, misleading, baffling, bemusing, befuddling, bewildering, cattywampus, clear as mud, confounding, confusing, confuzzling, complicated, disordered, flabbergasting, incomprehensible, inexplicable, insensible, jumbled, mystifying, nonplussing, perplexing, puzzling, unintelligible, uninterpretable, vague- Derived terms
- confusingly, confusingness, more confusing than a Rubik's cube