| 单词 | muddled |
| 释义 | muddled (once / 4582 pages) adj Muddled things are all mixed-up and confused. Your mind might feel muddled when you first wake up from a long nap. Your school's football quarterback might get muddled and throw the ball the wrong way. Or, your muddled French teacher could make the class feel muddled too if she accidentally starts speaking German in class. The verb muddle, "to make confused or disordered," originally meant "destroy the clarity of," from its literal meaning, "to bathe in mud." WORD FAMILYmuddled: muddleder+/muddle: muddled, muddles, muddling USAGE EXAMPLESIn September, Louise Mensch fired off some incensed tweets that muddled up the two, much to the amusement of, well, everyone. The Guardian(Dec 19, 2016) At the core, there’s ostensibly a muddled message about the burdens of seeing the future and what to do with that information. Seattle Times(Dec 16, 2016) Largely impressionistic, the game deals with all the mixed-up, muddled thoughts of living through a tragedy. Los Angeles Times(Dec 15, 2016) adj confused and vague; used especially of thinking Syn addled, befuddled, muzzy, woolly, woolly-headed, wooly, wooly-minded confused mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently |
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