Confuse synonyms

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.

Another word for confuse

1. bewilder

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.

2. complicate

Blur, cloud, complicate, embroil, garble, jumble, make (more) difficult, make complex, make unclear, muddle, obfuscate, and obscure.

3. mix up

Confound, misinterpret as, mistake for, mix up, muddle up, and take for.

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