muddle synonyms

muddle

n.

  1. Confusion

    confusion, mess, jumble; see confusion 2.

  2. Difficulty

    perplexity, quandary, predicament, pother, dilemma, complication, intricacy, complexity, awkwardness, involvement, emergency, struggle, unmanageableness, encumbrance, jam*, pickle*; see also difficulty 2, puzzle. See syn. study at confusion.

muddle

v.

  1. To confuse; said of affairs

    stir up, misarrange, disarrange, entangle, foul, mix, jumble, bungle, derange, shake up, mess, botch, potter, clutter, snarl, pi, complicate, disorder; see also confuse.

  2. To confuse; said usually of people

    disturb, perturb, ruffle; see confuse.

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