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Synonyms for muddle
Grammar : Noun, verb |
Spell : muhd-l |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmʌd l |
Top 10 synonyms for muddle Other synonyms for the word muddle
- bewilder
- blunder
- botch
- bungle
- chaos
- clutter
- complexity
- complication
- confound
- confusion
- daze
- difficulty
- dilemma
- disarrange
- disarrangement
- disarray
- disorder
- disorganization
- disorient
- emergency
- encumbrance
- entangle
- fog
- foul
- foul up
- foul-up
- hash
- haze
- intricacy
- involvement
- jumble
- louse up
- make a mess of
- mess
- mess and a half
- misarrange
- mix
- mix up
- mix-up
- muck
- mumble
- murmur
- muss
- nonplus
- perplex
- perplexity
- plight
- predicament
- psych out
- quandary
- rat's nest
- rattle
- ravel
- ruffle
- scramble
- screw-up
- shambles
- shuffle
- snafu
- snarl
- spoil
- stir up
- struggle
- stumble
- stupefy
- tangle
- throw
- throw off
- trouble
- tumble
Définition of muddle
Origin :- 1590s, "destroy the clarity of" (a transferred sense); literal sense ("to bathe in mud") is from c.1600; perhaps frequentative formation from mud, or from Dutch moddelen "to make (water) muddy," from the same Proto-Germanic source. Sense of "to make muddy" is from 1670s; that of "make confused" first recorded 1680s. Meaning "to bungle" is from 1885. Related: Muddled; muddling.
- noun confused state
- verb confuse, disorganize
- "He can advise us and help us to put the muddle right," said Mrs. Ware.
- Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
- Paris was going on—all that muddle and maze of worried people.
- Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
- You merely come here because Mr. Kenyon is in a muddle about what I am going to do.
- Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr
- Philip would have a spasm of horror at the muddle he had made.
- Extract from : « Where Angels Fear to Tread » by E. M. Forster
- These books are only good to muddle your head and make you jumpy.
- Extract from : « Typhoon » by Joseph Conrad
- And we stumble about with our senses, making a muddle of our earth.
- Extract from : « The Man Who Wins » by Robert Herrick
- It is a muddle, perhaps, and a puzzle; I doubt if anybody quite understands it.
- Extract from : « The Gypsies » by Charles G. Leland
- Miss Upton's accounts were still in a muddle when she reached Keefe.
- Extract from : « In Apple-Blossom Time » by Clara Louise Burnham
- And I'm a cripple, and she's beautiful—— Oh, my mind's in a muddle!
- Extract from : « Patchwork » by Anna Balmer Myers
- What makes the muddle is that she isn't clear about the creature she wants most.
- Extract from : « The Tragic Muse » by Henry James
Antonyms for muddle
- advantage
- arrange
- arrangement
- blessing
- calm
- clarify
- clarity
- clear up
- clearness
- comfort
- contentment
- do well
- ease
- educate
- enlighten
- enlightenment
- explain
- explicate
- fix
- good fortune
- harmony
- help
- method
- neatness
- order
- orderliness
- organization
- organize
- peace
- simplicity
- solution
- soothe
- speak clearly
- succeed
- system
- tidiness
- uncomplicate
- understanding
- untangle
- untwist
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