75 synonyms for confuse such as mistake for, byzantine, blur, confound, and misinterpret as. Confuse is a verb, and its antonyms are lucid and precise.
Byzantine, above one's head, ambiguous, baffle, baffling, beat, befog, bemuse, bewilder, bewildering, beyond one, buffalo, cause to be at a stand, complex, complicated, confound, confusticate, contradictory, convoluted, difficult (to understand), discombobulate, disconcert, disconcerting, distract, faze, floor, flummox, fog, fox, gravel, impenetrable, inconsistent, inexplicable, intricate, involved, labyrinthine, maze, misleading, mysterious, mystify, mystifying, nonplus, obfuscate, perplex, perplexing, pose, puzzle, puzzling, set someone thinking, stump, throw, unaccountable, unclear, unfathomable, wilder, and wildering.
Blur, cloud, complicate, embroil, garble, jumble, make (more) difficult, make complex, make unclear, muddle, obfuscate, and obscure.
Confound, misinterpret as, mistake for, mix up, muddle up, and take for.