Synonyms for muddle
ˈmʌd lmud·dle

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1. muddle

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

   Antonyms:
   clarify, manage, economize, classify, arrange

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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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1. muddleverb

   Synonyms:
   make muddy, make turbid

2. muddleverb

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

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1. muddlenoun

   Synonyms:
   confusion

2. muddleverb

   Synonyms:
   confuse, fuddle, bewilder

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1. List of paraphrases for "muddle":

   confusion, imbroglio, mess, chaos, tangle

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How to use muddle in a sentence?

1. 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.

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. 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.

4. Sybil Adelman:

   I thought I loved him, but I really just needed him. There was so much death and when I was in bed with him, I wasn't thinking about death...Look, what I'm trying to say is that we can't know what's in another person's heart, we can't even know what's in our own. Life turns on a dime, and somehow we muddle through.

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.