confusion
confusion is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The state of being abashed or disconcerted; loss self-possession; perturbation; shame. Confusion dwelt in every face And fear in every heart. Spectator.
- 2.Overthrow; defeat; ruin. Ruin seize thee, ruthless king, Confusion on thy banners wait. Gray.
- 3.One who confuses; a confounder. [Obs.] Chapmen. Confusion of goods (Law), the intermixture of the goods of two or more persons, so that their respective portions can no longer be distinguished. Blackstone. Bouvier.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abuse
- accent
- ambiguity
- anagram
- antiphrasis
- archaic
- archaism
- argot
- babu
- barbarism
- betacism
- bilingual
- black
- brogue
- broken
- byword
- call
- cant
- chrestomathy
- clinch
- coin
- coiner
- colloquial
- colloquialism
- comparative
- corruption
- current
- dead
- dialect
- dialectic
- dog
- double
- express
- expression
- figure
- flash
- genius
- gibberish
- glossology
- glottology
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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