confused

/kənˈfjuzd/

意味: 混乱した、当惑した（形容詞用法）

例文: Kai looked confused: “Where did my snack go?”
　　  カイが困惑「おやつどこ行った？」

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: confused state(混乱した状態), confused expression(困惑した表情), confused look(混乱した表情)

定義: 何かが理解できない、または何をすべきかがわからない状態を指します。情報が多すぎたり、矛盾していたりするときに感じることがあります。頭の中が混乱している、または物事がはっきりしないときに使います。

confusedは約30,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Verb: mistake one thing for another
Verb: be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
Verb: cause to feel embarrassment
Verb: assemble without order or sense
Verb: make unclear, indistinct, or blurred
Adjective: perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
Adjective: lacking orderly continuity
Adjective: having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity
Adjective: thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
Adjective: mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Verb, Adjective

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

She looked confused by the complicated instructions.(彼女は複雑な指示に混乱していた。)
I felt confused after hearing the unexpected news.(予想外の知らせを聞いて混乱した。)
The teacher noticed the confused expression on his face.(先生は彼の困惑した表情に気づいた。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Verb: you are confusing me with the other candidate
Verb: I mistook her for the secretary
Verb: These questions confuse even the experts
Verb: This question completely threw me
Verb: This question befuddled even the teacher
Verb: The constant attention of the young man confused her
Verb: She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence
Verb: Her remarks confused the debate
Verb: Their words obnubilate their intentions
Adjective: obviously bemused by his questions
Adjective: bewildered and confused
Adjective: a cloudy and confounded philosopher
Adjective: just a mixed-up kid
Adjective: she felt lost on the first day of school
Adjective: a confused set of instructions
Adjective: a confused dream about the end of the world
Adjective: disconnected fragments of a story
Adjective: scattered thoughts
Adjective: I frequently find myself disoriented when I come up out of the subway
Adjective: the anesthetic left her completely disoriented
Adjective: troops fleeing in broken ranks
Adjective: a confused mass of papers on the desk
Adjective: the small disordered room
Adjective: with everything so upset
Adjective: the flood of questions left her bewildered and confused

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): at sea, baffled, bedevil, befuddle, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, blur, broken, confound, confounded, confuse, confused, discombobulate, disconcert, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, disoriented, flurry, fox, fuddle, garbled, illogical, jumble, lost, mazed, mix up, mixed-up, obnubilate, obscure, put off, scattered, throw, unconnected, upset

Antonyms(反意語): clearheaded

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): assemble, be, change, embarrass, mistake

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abound, accelerate, accept, account, account for, acerbate, acetylate, achromatize, act, activate, adjust, affect, age, alchemize, alcoholize, alkalinize, allegorize, alter, americanize, angulate, animize, answer, antiquate, antique, appear, archaize, arterialize, ash, assimilate, automatize, awaken, bake, balance, barb, barbarize, be well, beat, begin, belong, bestialize, better, blind, blister, blunt, blur, boil, break, break down, breathe, brighten, bring, brutalize, bubble, buy, calcify, camp, capture, cause to sleep, centralize, change intensity, change taste, charge, chasten, check, circularize, civilize, clarify, classicize, clean, clear, clot, cloud, coarsen, cohere, color, come in for, come in handy, commercialize, communize, commute, compact, compare, complicate, compound, condense, confect, configure, confuse, connect, consist, constitutionalize, contain, contaminate, continue, conventionalize, convert, cook, cool, corrupt, cost, count, counterchange, cover, crack, cry, customize, cut, cut across, damage, darken, de-emphasize, deaden, deaminate, decarboxylate, decelerate, decentralize, decimalize, deck, decorate, decrease, decrepitate, deflate, deform, dehydrogenate, demagnetize, demist, democratize, demonize, demulsify, demythologize, denationalize, denaturalize, denature, deodorize, depend, depersonalize, depolarize, desensitize, deserve, destabilize, detransitivize, devalue, develop, devilize, digitize, dinge, dirty, disable, disagree, discolor, disharmonize, disintegrate, disorder, disqualify, dissimilate, dissolve, distribute, diverge, diversify, dizzy, domesticate, dope, draw, dry, dull, dynamize, ease up, edit, embrittle, empty, emulsify, enable, end, equal, eroticize, estrange, etherealize, etiolate, europeanize, evaporate, even, excite, extend, exteriorize, fall, fatten, feel, feminize, fertilize, figure, fill, fit, fix, flatten, flocculate, freeze, frenchify, full, gape, gelatinize, glamorize, glorify, go, gravitate, habituate, hail, hang, harmonize, harshen, head, heat, hold, hoodoo, hue, hum, humanize, humble, hydrogenate, immaterialize, immortalize, impend, inactivate, incandesce, incarnate, increase, indispose, industrialize, inflate, inform, inseminate, insulate, intensify, internationalize, introvert, invalidate, invert, iodinate, ionate, iridesce, islamize, isomerize, jumble, kill, laicize, legitimate, lend, let go, liberalize, lie, lifehack, lift, liquefy, litter, loiter, look, loosen, louden, lower, lubricate, magnetize, make, make sense, mark, masculinize, measure, mechanize, militarize, mince, mix, mope, morph, muddy, mythologize, nationalize, naturalize, nazify, neutralize, nick, normalize, obfuscate, object, obscure, occidentalize, officialize, opacify, opalize, opsonize, orientalize, osculate, ossify, outmode, owe, oxidize, oxygenize, paganize, pall, parallel, patent, pay, personalize, piggyback, plasticize, point, poison, polarize, politicize, port, press, professionalize, promise, proof, prostrate, prove, purify, put, put out, radicalize, rage, range, rank, rarefy, rate, rationalize, reassemble, recognize, recombine, recommend, reconstruct, refine, reflate, reform, refresh, relate, relax, remain, remodel, represent, rest, restore, retard, revolutionize, rig up, right, ripen, romanticize, round off, run, run into, rusticate, rut, sanitize, saponify, saturate, sauce, schematize, scramble, seem, seethe, sell, sensitize, sentimentalize, set, sexualize, shade, shake, shallow, shape, sharpen, shift, shine, shorten, simplify, slenderize, smut, sober, socialize, soften, solemnize, solvate, sparkle, specify, spice, spike, sputter, squat, stabilize, stagnate, stain, stand, stand by, stay, steepen, stick, stiffen, still, stink, straighten, strengthen, string, substitute, subtend, suburbanize, suck, suffer, suit, supercharge, supple, suspend, sweeten, swim, swing, switch, symmetrize, synchronize, tame, tend, tender, tense, territorialize, test, thicken, think, tighten, tone down, total, touch, transaminate, transfigure, transform, transitivize, translate, transmute, transplant, transpose, trim, turn, turn back, uglify, unclutter, underlie, uniformize, unite, unsanctify, unscramble, unsex, untie, untune, urbanize, validate, variegate, vascularize, ventilate, verbify, vesiculate, visualize, vitalize, vitrify, vivify, volatilize, vulgarise, want, warm, wash, weaken, weaponize, wet, widen, wind, work, worsen

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): addle, bother, demoralize, disorient, distract, fluster, muddy, perplex

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: befuddlement, confusedness, confusion, discombobulation, disconcertion, disconcertment, disconnectedness, disjointedness, illogicalness, jumble

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: psychology

Usage Category: informal

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive, emotional, online

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞): co

Suffixes(接尾辞): ed

Exam Level

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Holes

Movies(映画): Frozen, The Bad Guys

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: