confusing
/kənˈfjuːzɪŋ/ adjective B1- difficult to understand; not clear as lacking order, chaotic, etc. · Several sections in that book are really confusing.
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“I’m afraid I can’t put it more clearly,” Alice replied very politely, “for I can’t understand it myself to begin with; and being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing.”
“I don’t think they play at all fairly,” Alice began, in rather a complaining tone, “and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can’t hear oneself speak—and they don’t seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them—and you’ve no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there’s the arch I’ve got to go through next walking about at the other end of the ground—and I should have croqueted the Queen’s hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming!”
It’s by far the most confusing thing _I_ ever heard!”
London has a confusing maze of winding roads, narrow alleys, and dead ends.
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