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muddlesnounpl. of muddle a state in which everything is out of orderthings at the newly built school were all in a muddle on opening day chance-medleys, chaoses, confusions, disarrangements, disarrays, dishevelments, disorders, disorganizations, free-for-alls, havoc, hecks, hells, jumbles, mare's nests(or mares' nests), messes, misorders, musses, shambles, snake pits, tumbles, welters anarchies, misrules, riotsknots, snarls, tangleslabyrinths, mazes, websmaelstroms, stormsbollixes, clutters, litters, mishmashes, shuffleshodgepodges, medleys, miscellanies, morasses, motleys orders methods, patterns, plans, systems a state of mental uncertaintythe new, supposedly improved forms simply put taxpayers in a bigger muddle bafflements, bamboozlements, befuddlements, bemusements, bewilderments, confusions, discombobulations, distractions, fogs, head-scratchings, mazes(chiefly dialect), mystifications, perplexities, puzzlements, tangles, whirls abashments, discomfitures, disconcertments, embarrassments, mortificationsagitations, chagrins, discomforts, dismays, disquiets, distresses, disturbances, perturbations, upsetsbothers, commotions, dithers, flurries, flusters, fusses, stews, turmoils assurances, certainties, certitudes, confidences, convictions an unorganized collection or mixture of various thingsa muddle of old magazines piled on the shelves agglomerates, agglomerations, alphabet soups, assortments, botches, clutters, collages, crazy quilts, farragoes, gallimaufries, grab bags, gumbos, hashes, hodgepodges, hotchpotches, jambalayas, jumbles, jungles, litters, macédoines, medleys, mélanges, menageries, miscellanea, miscellanies, mishmashes, mixed bags, montages, motleys, olios, olla podridas(also ollas podridas), omnium-gatherums, pastiches, patchwork quilts, patchworks, potpourris, ragbags, ragouts, rummages, salads, salmagundis, scrambles, shuffles, smorgasbords, stews, tumbles, varieties, welters detritus, notions, oddments, odds and ends, sundriesaccumulations, aggregates, aggregations, conglomerates, conglomerationscatchallsadmixtures, alloys, amalgams, blends, combinations, commixtures, composites, compounds, fusions, intermixtures, mix-upsbollixes, chaoses, confusions, disarrangements, disarrays, disorders, dog's breakfasts(chiefly British), messes, morasses, shamblesimbroglios, knots, snarls, tangles muddlesverbpresent tense third-person singular of muddleto throw into a state of mental uncertaintya car shopper thoroughly muddled by too much well-meaning advice addles, baffles, bamboozles, beats, befogs, befuddles, bemuses, bewilders, buffaloes, confounds, confuses, discombobulates, disorients, flummoxes, foxes, fuddles, gets, gravels, mazes, muddies, mystifies, perplexes, poses, puzzles, vexes sticks, stumps, weirds outabashes, discomfits, disconcerts, discountenances, embarrasses, fazes, flusters, mortifies, nonpluses(or nonplusses), rattlesagitates, bothers, chagrins, discomforts, discomposes, dismays, disquiets, distresses, disturbs, perturbs, stuns, unhinges, unsettles, upsetsbeguiles, cozens, deceives, deludes, dupes, fools, gulls, hoaxes, hoodwinks, humbugs, misguides, misleads, snows, strings along, takes in, tricks blows one's mind, goes to one's head assures, reassures, satisfiesenlightens, informs to undo the proper order or arrangement ofsome mischievous brat had muddled the household accounts confuses, deranges, disarranges, disarrays, discomposes, dishevels, disjoints, dislocates, disorders, disorganizes, disrupts, disturbs, hashes, jumbles, messes (up), mixes (up), musses, rumples, scrambles, shuffles, tousles, tumbles, upsets embroils, entangles, snarls, tanglesagitates, perturbs, stirs (up), unsettlesclutters arranges, arrays, disposes, draws up, marshals(also marshalls), orders, organizes, ranges, regulates, straightens (up), tidies aligns(also alines), lines, lines up, queuesclassifies, codifies, methodizes, systematizes, systemizesadjusts, fixesgrooms, makes up, spruces (up)unscrambles |