Nearby Words
jumbled
[juhm-buhl] 
| Main Entry: |
jumble
[juhm-buhl]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mix up, confuse |
| Synonyms: | clutter, confound, derange, disarrange, disarray, dishevel, disorder, disorganize, disturb, entangle, foul up, mess up, mistake, muddle, rummage, shuffle, snarl, tangle, tumble |
| Antonyms: | arrange, clear up, order, organize |
| Main Entry: | clutter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause mess, disarray |
| Synonyms: | dirty, jumble, litter, muddle, scatter, snarl, strew |
| Antonyms: | array, clean up, neaten, order, tidy |
| Main Entry: | complex |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult to understand |
| Synonyms: | Byzantine, Daedalean, Gordian, abstruse, bewildering, circuitous, complicated, confused, convoluted, crabbed, cryptic, discursive, disordered, disturbing, enigmatic, entangled, excursive, hidden, impenetrable, inscrutable, interwoven, intricate, involved, jumbled, knotted, knotty, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, mingled, mixed, muddled, obscure, paradoxical, perplexing, puzzling, rambling, recondite, round-about, sinuous, snarled, sophisticated, tangled, tortuous, undecipherable, unfathomable, winding |
| Notes: | something complex may be well-organized and logically constructed as well as subtle and intricate, while a thing that is complicated will have something irregular, perverse, asymmetrical in addition to fundamental intricacy; complex is more formal and technical (a problem in mathematics is complex) while something like personal life can be complicated |
| Antonyms: | apparent, clear, direct, discernible, easy, evident, obvious, plain |
| Main Entry: | complicate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | confuse, make difficult |
| Synonyms: | add fuel to fire, bedevil, clog, combine, confound, convolute, derange, disarrange, disorder, elaborate, embroil, entangle, fold, foul up, handicap, impede, infold, interfuse, interrelate, interweave, involve, jumble, make intricate, make waves, mix up, muck up, muddle, multiply, obscure, open can of worms, perplex, ravel, render unintelligible, screw up, snafu, snag, snarl up, tangle, twist, upset |
| Antonyms: | disentangle, ease, explain, facilitate, make simple, untangle |
| Main Entry: | confound |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | confuse |
| Synonyms: | abash, amaze, astonish, astound, baffle, befog, bewilder, blend, bug*, commingle, confute, discombobulate, discomfit, discountenance, dumbfound, embarrass, faze, fiddle, flabbergast, jumble, metagrobolize, misidentify, mix, mix up, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, rattle, screw up, startle, surprise, throw* |
| Antonyms: | clarify, clear up, enlighten, explain, make clear, relate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | confuse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mix up; involve |
| Synonyms: | bedlamize, blend, clutter, confound, disarrange, disarray, discombobulate, discreate, disorder, disorganize, embroil, encumber, entangle, intermingle, involve, jumble, litter, mess up*, mingle, mistake, muddle, muss up, rumple, snarl up, tangle, tousle, tumble |
| Antonyms: | order, organize, separate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | confused |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mixed up, disordered |
| Synonyms: | anarchic, blurred, chaotic, disarranged, disorderly, disorganized, haywire, in a muddle, in disarray, involved, jumbled, messy, miscalculated, miscellaneous, mistaken, misunderstood, obscured, out of order, snafu, snarled, topsy-turvy, unsettled, untidy |
| Antonyms: | methodical, ordered, organized, separated, systematic |
| Main Entry: | demoralize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | depress, unnerve |
| Synonyms: | abash, blow out, blow up, chill, cripple, damp, dampen, daunt, debilitate, deject, disarrange, disconcert, discountenance, discourage, dishearten, disorder, disorganize, disparage, dispirit, disturb, embarrass, enfeeble, get to, jumble, muddle, nonplus, psych out, rattle, sap, send up, shake, snarl, take apart, take steam out, undermine, unglue, unman, unsettle, unzip, upset, weaken |
| Antonyms: | boost, comfort, encourage, uplift |
| Main Entry: | disarrange |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disorder |
| Synonyms: | derange, discompose, disturb, get out of order, jumble, mess, mix up, ruffle, scramble, shuffle, unsettle, untidy |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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