clueless

[kloo-lis] / ˈklu lɪs /

ADJECTIVE

puzzled

Synonyms

STRONGEST

baffled bewildered doubtful mystified perplexed rattled

STRONG

bollixed discombobulated floored lost nonplussed shook stuck stumped thrown

WEAK

at a loss at sea come apart come unzipped dopey foggy fouled-up hung up in a fog loused up messed-up mind-blown mixed up mucked up screwed-up shook-up spaced out unglued without a clue

Antonyms

STRONGEST

clear

WEAK

aware certain cognizant sure

ADJECTIVE

simpleminded

Synonyms

WEAK

brainless childlike crude dumb feeble-minded idiotic ignorant moronic naive slow stupid uncomplicated unschooled unstudied untutored unworldly

Example Sentences

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Banks are used to working with the surviving relatives, including those who are clueless or casually dressed.

From Salon

She said she scanned the table for recording devices, but concluded they were clueless investors as they fumbled through basic questions about Slovenian politics.

From The Wall Street Journal

We learn all of this via flashbacks interspersed throughout the present-day trials of Dr. Grace after he wakes up, clueless, on a spaceship extremely far from home.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I can’t talk to people the way you or Avery can. I’m smart at school and clueless with everything else. Remember?”

From Literature

Greg, clueless about just how politically incorrect he can be without even trying, gets chastised several times, though the circumstances are deliberately exaggerated.

From The Wall Street Journal

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