confusing

difficult to understand; not clear as lacking order, chaotic, etc.

Adjective

  1. 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,...

Forms

more confusing most confusing

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

judicious obvious sensible

Related

confuse confused confusion uncertain flustered

Derived

confusingly confusingness more confusing than a Rubik's cube

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of confuse