muddled

adj

1. jumbled, tangled, snarled, en-snarled, mixed-up, all mixed-up, jumbled together, thrown together; disorganized, disorderly, in disorder, in disarray, disarranged, deranged, at sixes and sevens, hugger-mugger, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, topsy-turvy, Sl. arsy-varsy.

2. botched, bungled, blundered, bobbled, fumbled, Inf. flubbed, mishandled, mismanaged; spoiled, spoilt, ruined, marred, butchered, murdered; All Sl. screwed-up, loused-up, fouled-up, balled-up, bollixed-up, mucked-up, gummed-up.

3. confused, confounded, mystified, perplexed, baffled, bewildered, nonplused, buffaloed; uncertain, unsure, at sea, adrift, at a loss; discomposed, flustered, aflutter, Inf. discombobulated, dazed, Archaic. be-mazed; disoriented, fuzzy, in a fog, in a daze, in a stupor, Inf. muzzy, Inf. spaced or spaced out, Inf. out of it, Sl. in the ozone, Sl. in another zone. 757

4. tipsy, grogged, Archaic. groggy, obfuscated, woozy, bleary-eyed, pie-eyed, glassy-eyed; intoxicated, inebriated, drunk, sodden, besotted, sottish, awash, Literary. in one's cups; under the influence, under the weather, having a glow on, the worse for liquor; All Inf. boozy, lit, lit-up, tight, illuminated, high, mellow, feeling good, feeling no pain; All Sl. loaded, tanked, lubricated, oiled, stewed, bombed, plotched. See alsodrunk(defs.2, 3).