<p><strong>Adjective:</strong></p><ul><li>not thinking coherently or rationally; bewildered; perplexed.</li><li>incorrectly differentiated, identified, or associated.</li><li>without order; jumbled.</li><li>disconcerted, perturbed, or ashamed.</li><li>expressed in a way that is not easily understood.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb:</strong></p><ul><li>the simple past tense and past participle of confuse.</li></ul>