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Word Origin & History
early 14c., "discomfited, routed, defeated" (of groups), serving at first as an alternative past participle of confound, as Latin confusus was the past participle of confundere "to pour together, mix, mingle; to join together;" hence, figuratively, "to throw into disorder; to trouble, disturb, upset." The Latin past participle also was used as an adjective, with reference to mental states, "troubled, embarrassed," and this passed into Old French as confus "dejected, downcast, undone, defeated, discomfited in mind or feeling," which passed to Middle English as confus (14c.; e.g. Chaucer: "I am so confus, that I may not seye"), which then was assimilated to the English past participle pattern by addition of -ed. Of individuals, "discomfited in mind, perplexed," from mid-14c.; of ideas, speech, thought, etc., from 1610s. By mid-16c., the word seems to have been felt as a pure adj., and it evolved a back-formed verb in confuse. Few English etymologies are more confused.
Example Sentences forconfused
He was almost surprised that he recognized it, everything was so confused.
Frederica looked so shy, so confused, when we entered the room, that I felt for her exceedingly.
After that Marian's thought was confused to the point of exasperation.
It was only later on that Winnie obtained from him a misty and confused confession.
But it was all so confused, I can recollect only some parts of it.
And the Captain proceeded to give a confused account of what had passed.
Every proposition, which is not true, is there confused and unintelligible.
The rest of the day seemed to Dilly like a confused though not an unfamiliar dream.
Confused and turbulent as Tiverton had become, Nicholas Oldfield settled her at once.
He stood like a statue, confused, his eyes down, and his colour varying.