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DISORIENTED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does disoriented mean?
• DISORIENTED (adjective)
The adjective DISORIENTED has 2 senses:
1. having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity
2. socially disoriented
Familiarity information: DISORIENTED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity
Synonyms:
Context example:
the anesthetic left her completely disoriented
Similar:
unoriented (not having position or goal definitely set or ascertained)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Socially disoriented
Synonyms:
alienated; anomic; disoriented
Context example:
we live in an age of rootless alienated people
Similar:
unoriented (not having position or goal definitely set or ascertained)
Context examples
Fire produces poisonous gases that make you disoriented and drowsy.
(Fires, Federal Emergency Management Agency)
A mental state in which a person is confused, disoriented, and not able to think or remember clearly.
(Delirium, NCI Dictionary)
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