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disoriented
[ dis-awr-ee-en-tid, -ohr- ]
adjective
- confused as to time or place; out of touch:
therapy for disoriented patients.
Synonyms: unhinged, unstable, distracted
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Word History and Origins
Origin of disoriented1
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Example Sentences
As he tried to make his way through a crowd of mourners late last month, he looked preoccupied and even disoriented.
I was tired, my eyes burning from the road and kind of disoriented.
His family believes he may be disoriented from a head injury he sustained last month, according to his sister.
Police believe that at the second location, Graham became disoriented, walking alone as she traveled northeast.
Perry blamed his poor performance in 2012 on recent back surgery, and painkillers that made him seem disoriented.
Madeleine felt strangely disoriented, as though dreaming with delirious fever.
Unable to feed himself or dress without assistance; totally disoriented.
A stenogram of February 10, 1907, shows him to have acquired some grandiose ideas and to be still disoriented to a large extent.
Without this he would have been a pitiful figure, disoriented, and inharmonious with the world into which he was born.
It was normally an instantaneous reaction to meeting someone, but I was still disoriented.
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