All confusing synonyms
con·fus·ing
C c adj confusing
- perplexing — to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain; confuse mentally: Her strange response perplexed me.
- upsetting — overturned: an upset milk pail.
- baffling — impossible to understand; perplexing; bewildering; puzzling
- complex — Something that is complex has many different parts, and is therefore often difficult to understand.
- complicated — If you say that something is complicated, you mean it has so many parts or aspects that it is difficult to understand or deal with.
- difficult — not easily or readily done; requiring much labor, skill, or planning to be performed successfully; hard: a difficult job.
- confounding — to perplex or amaze, especially by a sudden disturbance or surprise; bewilder; confuse: The complicated directions confounded him.
- disconcerting — disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
- bewildering — A bewildering thing or situation is very confusing and difficult to understand or to make a decision about.
- mystifying — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
- unsettling — to alter from a settled state; cause to be no longer firmly fixed or established; render unstable; disturb: Violence unsettled the government.
- involved — very intricate or complex: an involved reply.
- disorienting — to cause to lose one's way: The strange streets disoriented him.
- befuddling — to confuse, as with glib statements or arguments: politicians befuddling the public with campaign promises.