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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Confusion Worse Confounded Disorder made worse than before. "With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded." Milton: Paradise Lost, ii. line 996. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disorder | Turmoil; ferment; (agitation); to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "CONFUSION WORSE CONFOUNDED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Turkish | karmakarışıklık (a dickens of a mess, ballup, cock up, intricacy, mess, mishmash, mixed bag, skein, spaghetti, tangled skein, whirl), karışıklığın daniskası. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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