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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. Steven Feldstein:

    These companies, particularly Apple, are really interesting because they have a lot more to lose, particularly given the amount of hardware that they sell in terms of iPhones as well as their manufacturing, i don't know exactly where they're going to end up... short of a lot of public pressure, it's easy to conceive of a scenario where they try to also muddle their way through.

  2. Mohamed El-Erian:

    I think the probability of an accident is now somewhat higher. I don't think we can just muddle through forever on Greece.

  3. Mark Cohen:

    The retailers who were wandering around aimlessly pre-pandemic are going to be substantially less likely to muddle through than they were before.

  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. Michael Frazis:

    Markets are quite likely to muddle through from here, the vaccine is increasingly priced in. A couple of months ago, no one knew how deep coronavirus would be, or what the outcome of the election was. Now both sources of uncertainty have been removed.


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