muddled
Meaning of muddled
- not arranged in order; untidy.
the muddled display of pictures has been taken down
- bring into a disordered or confusing state.
I fear he may have muddled the message
- mix (a drink) or stir (an ingredient) into a drink.
muddle the kiwi slices with the sugar
late Middle English (in the sense ‘wallow in mud’): perhaps from Middle Dutch moddelen, frequentative of modden ‘dabble in mud’; compare with mud. The sense ‘confuse’ was initially associated with alcoholic drink (late 17th century), giving rise to ‘busy oneself in a confused way’ and ‘jumble up’ (mid 19th century).
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Hyphenation of muddled
mud-dled
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- muddled is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
muddled synonyms
Meaning addled:
addled, befuddled, muzzy, woolly, wooly
Meaning make (something) more complex or less easy to understand:
Meaning mix up in a confused or untidy way:
Meaning make untidy or disordered:
Meaning disrupt the systematic order or functioning of:
Meaning disrupt the systematic functioning or neat arrangement of:
Meaning interfere with the normal arrangement or functioning of:
Meaning make (something) jumbled or muddled:
Meaning in a state of complete confusion and disorder:
Meaning not properly planned and controlled:
Meaning not neatly arranged; confused and untidy:
Meaning lacking organization; untidy:
Meaning not arranged neatly and in order:
Meaning untidy or dirty:
Meaning twisted together untidily; matted:
muddled antonyms
Meaning neatly and methodically arranged:
Words that rhyme with muddled
cradled, encradled, ladled, reladled, treadled, uncradled, unladled, addled, befuddled, bemuddled, bestraddled, buddled, coddled, comeddled, condiddled, cruddled, cuddled, daddled, diddled, faddled, fiddled, fuddled, griddled, guddled, heddled, hoddled, huddled, intermeddled, maddled, meddled, middled, mollycoddled, noddled, offsaddled, overmeddled, paddled, peddled, piddled, premuddled, puddled, quiddled, raddled, reddled, repeddled, resaddled, riddled, ruddled, saddled, scroddled, scuddled