DISORIENTED

alienated, anomic, disoriented

(adjective) socially disoriented; “anomic loners musing over their fate”; “we live in an age of rootless alienated people”

confused, disoriented, lost

(adjective) having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity; “I frequently find myself disoriented when I come up out of the subway”; “the anesthetic left her completely disoriented”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

disoriented

simple past tense and past participle of disorient

Adjective

disoriented (comparative more disoriented, superlative most disoriented)

Having lost one's direction; confused.

Source: Wiktionary


DISORIENT

Dis*o"ri*ent, v. t.

Definition: To turn away from the cast; to confuse as to which way is east; to cause to lose one's bearings. [R.] Bp. Warburton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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UNAMBIGUOUS

(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa


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