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Synonyms for muddle
ˈmʌd lmud·dle

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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 1 vote

  1. muddle

    Synonyms:
    fail, waste, fritter away, confuse, derange, misarrange

    Antonyms:
    clarify, manage, economize, classify, arrange

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. clutter, jumble, muddle, fuddle, mare's nest, welter, smothernoun

    a confused multitude of things

    Synonyms:
    hole, jam, fuddle, jumbal, clutter, mare's nest, mess, patchwork, hodgepodge, smother, pickle, fix, jumble, kettle of fish, welter

  2. fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fishverb

    informal terms for a difficult situation

    "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"

    Synonyms:
    tidy sum, smother, peck, mint, crush, plenty, lot, location, locating, localisation, raft, quite a little, passel, hole, fix, mare's nest, press, jam, pile, muckle, fixture, mend, golf hole, electronic jamming, good deal, maw, fixing, mending, sight, gob, trap, deal, pickle, flock, stack, kettle of fish, fuddle, wad, messiness, hatful, mickle, hollow, heap, great deal, mess, repair, clutter, mess hall, mass, jamming, batch, yap, mountain, welter, spate, mussiness, slew, localization, jumble, cakehole, muss, reparation, pot

  3. muddle, puddleverb

    make into a puddle

    "puddled mire"

    Synonyms:
    wee, piddle, urinate, addle, wee-wee, micturate, pass water, puddle, piss, spend a penny, relieve oneself, take a leak, make water, pee, make, pee-pee

  4. addle, muddle, puddleverb

    mix up or confuse

    "He muddled the issues"

    Synonyms:
    wee, piddle, urinate, addle, wee-wee, micturate, pass water, puddle, piss, spend a penny, relieve oneself, take a leak, make water, pee, make, pee-pee

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. muddleverb

    Synonyms:
    make muddy, make turbid

  2. muddleverb

    Synonyms:
    stupefy, fuddle, inebriate, make half drunk, make tipsy

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words4.0 / 1 vote

  1. muddlenoun

    Synonyms:
    confusion

  2. muddleverb

    Synonyms:
    confuse, fuddle, bewilder

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "muddle":

    confusion, imbroglio, mess, chaos, tangle

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How to use muddle in a sentence?

  1. Brian Gibbons:

    We do think that we'll see another leg down from here, but when you peel back the onion, we don't think defaults rates will be as bad as some people think, yes, there are about 20-25 names that could be in danger, but we think many of them should be able to muddle through over the next year.

  2. E. M. Forster:

    It isn't possible to love and part...you can transmutate love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. Love is eternal

  3. Lloyd Blankfein:

    ( The) U.S. economy is not going off the rails, i'm generally sanguine. We muddle through. I think some of this is an overreaction to the overreaction of assets being so swollen.

  4. Sean Coleman:

    We expect a muddle through economy rather than a recession this year, nonetheless, you could argue the high yield markets are pricing in a recession.

  5. Sean Coleman:

    Despite recent market firmness, large deals still face resistance given the risk-off environment and weak technicals: fund outflows, buyers on strike and the slowing CLO machine, we expect a muddle through economy rather than a recession this year.


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