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at a loss
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dumbfounded |
| Synonyms: | at a loss, awestruck, bewildered, confounded, confused, dazed, disconcerted, muddled, nonplussed, stupefied, uncomprehending, wonderstruck |
| Antonyms: | aware, excited, understanding |
| Main Entry: | puzzled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | confused |
| Synonyms: | at a loss, at sea, baffled, bewildered, bollixed, clueless, come apart, come unzipped, discombobulated*, dopey, doubtful, floored, foggy, fouled up, hung up, in a fog, lost, loused up, messed up, mind-blown, mixed up, mucked up, mystified, nonplussed, perplexed, rattled, screwed up, shook, shook up, spaced out, stuck, stumped, thrown, unglued, without a clue |
| Antonyms: | aware, certain, cognizant, sure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stumped |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | puzzled |
| Synonyms: | at a loss, baffled, befuddled, bewildered, confused, dumbfounded, uncertain |
| Main Entry: | in the red |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | operating at a loss |
| Synonyms: | at a loss, bankrupt, behindhand, defaulting, delinquent, in arrears, in debt, in dire straits, in the hock, in the hole, insolvent, losing money, nonpaying, to the bad, unprofitably |
| Antonyms: | in the black |
| Main Entry: | muddle-headed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | confused |
| Synonyms: | abashed, addled, addlepated, at a loss, at sea, at sixes and sevens, baffled, befuddled, bewildered, come apart, confounded, confusional, dazed, discombobulated*, disconcerted, disorganized, distracted, flummoxed, flustered, fouled up, glassy-eyed, gone*, misled, mixed up, muddled, nonplussed, not with it, out to lunch, perplexed, perturbed, punch-drunk, punchy, puzzled, screwy, shook up, shot to pieces, slaphappy, spaced out, stumped, taken aback, thrown, thrown off balance, turbid, unglued, unscrewed, unzipped |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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