confusingly Definition

confuse
verb confused, confusing

1. To put into a muddle or mess.
2. To mix up or fail to distinguish (things, ideas, people, etc).

Example: confuse ‘ascetic' with ‘aesthetic'
3. To puzzle, bewilder or muddle.

Thesaurus: disconcert, perplex, baffle, confound, puzzle, mystify, bewilder, frustrate, rattle, fluster, disarm; Antonym: clarify, enlighten.
4. To complicate.
5. To embarrass.

Derivative: confused
adj

Puzzled, bewildered or muddled
Thesaurus: disoriented, bewildered, lost, misguided, mixed up; upset, disconcerted, at a loss.

Derivative: confusedly
adverb

Derivative: confusing
adj

Not clear or coherent
Thesaurus: obscure, ambiguous, inconclusive, inconsistent, contradictory, cryptic, difficult, incoherent, jumbled, unfathomable, incomprehensible; Antonym: clear.

Derivative: confusingly
adverb

Etymology: 18c: from Latin confundere, confusum to mix.