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Confusingly

Definition: Confusingly

Confusingly

Adverb

1. In a bewildering and confusing manner; "her situation was bewilderingly unclear".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Confusingly

Synonym: bewilderingly (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Confusingly

Specialty definitions using "confusingly": code segmentdelint. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Confusingly

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Nigeria

In practice, brand names or trade marks are not allowed to be confusingly identical or so confusingly similar to a brand name or a label already on the market, as to be likely to lead to deception of the purchasing public. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Confusingly

"Confusingly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Confusingly" is used about 77 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%7737,929

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Confusingly

Language Translations for "confusingly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

verwirrende (bafflingly, bewilderingly). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

onfusinglycay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Confusingly"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "confusingly" (pronounced kunfyuw"zinglē)
7-y uw" z i ng l ēaccusingly, amusingly.
5-z i ng l ēagonizingly, amazingly, pleasingly, surprisingly, tantalizingly, unsurprisingly.
4-i ng l ēaccordingly, admiringly, alarmingly, appallingly, appealingly, approvingly, astonishingly, astoundingly, breathtakingly, charmingly, chillingly, compellingly, convincingly, correspondingly, demandingly, depressingly, devastatingly, disappointingly, disarmingly, disparagingly, distressingly, disturbingly, embarrassingly, exceedingly, excruciatingly, fittingly, fleetingly, frighteningly, frowningly, frustratingly, glowingly, grudgingly, haltingly, hauntingly, increasingly, interestingly, intriguingly, jokingly, kiddingly, knowingly, laughingly, longingly, lovingly, maddeningly, menacingly, misleadingly, movingly, numbingly, obligingly, overwhelmingly, painstakingly, reassuringly, refreshingly, resoundingly, screamingly, seemingly, shockingly, smilingly, soothingly, sparingly, sportingly, startlingly, strikingly, stunningly, tellingly, threateningly, unfailingly, unhesitatingly, unknowingly, unthinkingly, unwillingly, unwittingly, warningly, willingly, wittingly.
3-ng l ēgangly, kingly, Langley, strongly, wrongly.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Confusingly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-f-g-i-l-n-n-o-s-u-y"

-1 letter: flouncings.

-2 letters: confusing, flouncing, unclosing, uncloying.

-3 letters: clonings, cousinly, focusing, foulings, sulfonic.

-4 letters: cloning, closing, cloying, congius, consign, cosying, flouncy, flyings, fouling, funnily, glycins, ingulfs, lousing, lungyis, nuncios, songful, sunnily, syncing, unclogs, uncoils, unnoisy, unsling, unsoncy.

-5 letters: clings, clingy, clonus, cluing, coigns, colins, coning, conins, consul, cosign, cosily, coulis, cousin, coying, flings, flongs, flying, fugios.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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