CONFUSING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does confusing mean? 

• CONFUSING (adjective)
  The adjective CONFUSING has 2 senses:

1. causing confusion or disorientation

2. lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity

  Familiarity information: CONFUSING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONFUSING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Causing confusion or disorientation

Context example:

being hospitalized can be confusing and distressing for a small child

Similar:

disorienting (causing loss of physical or intellectual bearings)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity

Synonyms:

confusing; perplexing; puzzling

Context example:

a puzzling statement

Similar:

unclear (not clear to the mind)

 Context examples 

Information on which to base your decision may be missing, misleading, or confusing, so strive to clarify all.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

In the past, port wine stains have frequently been termed capillary hemangiomas, which they are not; unfortunately this confusing practice persists: HEMANGIOMA, CAPILLARY is neoplastic, a port-wine stain is non-neoplastic.

(Nevus Flammeus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

This was naturally confusing, among so many strangers, and cost me some tears, but on the whole it was much better than I had anticipated.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

What happened after that was very confusing.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Professor Challenger answered that Mr. Summerlee appeared to be confusing the Amazon with the Thames; that it was in reality a somewhat larger river; that Mr. Summerlee might be interested to know that with the Orinoco, which communicated with it, some fifty thousand miles of country were opened up, and that in so vast a space it was not impossible for one person to find what another had missed.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you are going away, double-check your accommodations because Neptune will be manufacturing his fog, which is pretty but ultimately confusing to you plans.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

In a moment the decks were in commotion, Johansen bellowing orders and the men pulling or letting go ropes of various sorts—all naturally confusing to a landsman such as myself.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I was too bashful to do so then—I was afraid of confusing her, and I was no less afraid of confusing myself.—but I informed myself of the hour at which she left of an evening, in order that our visit might be timed accordingly; and taking leave of Mr. Omer, and his pretty daughter, and her little children, went away to my dear old Peggotty's.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Some of the clauses could be confusing or missing, and you’ll need to clarify this arrangement with your lawyer’s language added.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Neptune will be in hard angle to that full moon of December 11, so it would not be the right time to sign a contract, as it appears key clauses could be confusing, misleading, or missing.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)