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. 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. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. J. G. Ballard:

   The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom. In terms of pollution, noise and human life, the price of that freedom may be high, but perhaps the car, by the very muddle and confusion it causes, may be holding back the remorseless spread of the regimented, electronic society.