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perplexed

  • 1 que causa perplejidad

    • perplexed
    • perplexity

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > que causa perplejidad

  • 2 perplejo

    adj.
    baffled, at a loss, amazed, astonished.
    * * *
    1 perplexed
    * * *
    ADJ perplexed, puzzled

    dejar a algn perplejo — to perplex sb, puzzle sb

    se quedó perplejo un momento — he hesitated a moment, he looked perplexed for a moment

    * * *
    - ja adjetivo perplexed, puzzled

    estar perplejo con algo — to be puzzled o perplexed by something

    * * *
    = nonplussed [nonplused], gobsmacked, at sea.
    Ex. He was nonplussed when the crowd he expected protesting his policy of arresting illegal immigrants turned out to be seven.
    Ex. Recent statistics about the volume of junk e-mail are so astounding as to leave any reasonable person gobsmacked.
    Ex. This site seems to be giving tons of options and am completely at sea as to how to go about choosing the best one.
    ----
    * dejar perplejo = puzzle, perplex, stump, blow + Posesivo + mind, bewilder, nonplus.
    * tener perplejo = stump.
    * * *
    - ja adjetivo perplexed, puzzled

    estar perplejo con algo — to be puzzled o perplexed by something

    * * *
    = nonplussed [nonplused], gobsmacked, at sea.

    Ex: He was nonplussed when the crowd he expected protesting his policy of arresting illegal immigrants turned out to be seven.

    Ex: Recent statistics about the volume of junk e-mail are so astounding as to leave any reasonable person gobsmacked.
    Ex: This site seems to be giving tons of options and am completely at sea as to how to go about choosing the best one.
    * dejar perplejo = puzzle, perplex, stump, blow + Posesivo + mind, bewilder, nonplus.
    * tener perplejo = stump.

    * * *
    perplexed, puzzled, confused
    estaba perplejo con los resultados del experimento he was puzzled o perplexed o confused o baffled by the results of the experiment
    * * *

    perplejo
    ◊ -ja adjetivo

    perplexed, puzzled;
    estar perplejo con algo to be puzzled o perplexed by sth
    perplejo,-a adjetivo bewildered, perplexed: se quedó perplejo, he was puzzled

    ' perplejo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    fría
    - frío
    - perpleja
    - aturdir
    English:
    bemused
    - fox
    - mystify
    - perplexed
    - puzzle
    - stump
    - throw
    - baffled
    - perplex
    - puzzled
    * * *
    perplejo, -a adj
    perplexed, bewildered;
    la noticia me dejó perplejo the news perplexed o bewildered me
    * * *
    adj puzzled, perplexed
    * * *
    perplejo, -ja adj
    : perplexed, puzzled
    * * *
    perplejo adj puzzled

    Spanish-English dictionary > perplejo

  • 3 perplejidad

    f.
    perplexity, bewilderment.
    * * *
    1 perplexity
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=confusión) perplexity, puzzlement
    2) (=indecisión) hesitation
    3) (=situación perpleja) perplexing situation
    * * *
    femenino perplexity, puzzlement
    * * *
    = perplexity, bewilderment, puzzlement, bewilderness.
    Ex. The combination of perplexity over what is the right mix and apparent inability to represent information activity dynamically is very strong.
    Ex. Such power groups subsume the individual will as never before, and generate feelings of bewilderment, apathy, violence, alienation.
    Ex. Often we 'hide' our puzzlement behind comments like, 'I didn't like the way the story ended, did you?' or 'I wasn't convinced by the husband as a character'.
    Ex. The article 'Library scavenger hunts: a way out of the bewilderness' describes the use of library scavenger hunts to teach high school and college students research strategies and to make library use both enticing and enriching.
    ----
    * con perplejidad = quizzically, perplexedly.
    * * *
    femenino perplexity, puzzlement
    * * *
    = perplexity, bewilderment, puzzlement, bewilderness.

    Ex: The combination of perplexity over what is the right mix and apparent inability to represent information activity dynamically is very strong.

    Ex: Such power groups subsume the individual will as never before, and generate feelings of bewilderment, apathy, violence, alienation.
    Ex: Often we 'hide' our puzzlement behind comments like, 'I didn't like the way the story ended, did you?' or 'I wasn't convinced by the husband as a character'.
    Ex: The article 'Library scavenger hunts: a way out of the bewilderness' describes the use of library scavenger hunts to teach high school and college students research strategies and to make library use both enticing and enriching.
    * con perplejidad = quizzically, perplexedly.

    * * *
    perplexity, puzzlement
    mostró perplejidad he looked perplexed o confused o puzzled
    * * *

    perplejidad sustantivo femenino
    perplexity, puzzlement
    perplejidad sustantivo femenino perplexity, puzzlement
    ' perplejidad' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    aturdimiento
    English:
    baffled
    * * *
    perplexity, bewilderment;
    me miró con perplejidad he looked at me in perplexity o bewilderment
    * * *
    f perplexity
    * * *
    : perplexity

    Spanish-English dictionary > perplejidad

  • 4 perpleja

    adj.&f.
    doubtful, uncertain, perplexed.
    * * *

    perplejo,-a adjetivo bewildered, perplexed: se quedó perplejo, he was puzzled
    ' perpleja' also found in these entries:
    English:
    take aback

    Spanish-English dictionary > perpleja

  • 5 atolondrado

    adj.
    1 bewildered, perplexed, at a loss, rattled.
    2 reckless, muddle-headed, harebrained, mindless.
    3 careless, thoughtless.
    f. & m.
    confused person, muddler, scatterbrain.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: atolondrar.
    * * *
    1→ link=atolondrar atolondrar
    1 (desatinado) scatterbrained, reckless, silly
    2 (aturdido) stunned, bewildered
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=aturdido) bewildered, stunned
    2) (=irreflexivo) thoughtless, reckless; (=casquivano) scatterbrained; (=tonto) silly
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo
    a) [ser] ( impetuoso) rash, impetuous; ( despistado) scatterbrained
    b) [estar] ( por golpe) dazed, stunned
    II
    - da masculino, femenino scatterbrain
    * * *
    = reckless, harebrained, ditzy [ditzier -comp., ditziest -sup.], ditz, dits, ditsy [ditsier -comp., ditsiest -sup.], airhead, airheaded, haywire.
    Ex. The article is entitled ' Reckless driving on the information highway, or, is the scholar of the research library effectively using the available resources?'.
    Ex. Then one day she finds herself shooting the moon with a scheme so harebrained and daring that it just might succeed.
    Ex. She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.
    Ex. She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.
    Ex. But then again, there are thousands of such ditses out there that need mental help.
    Ex. If there is a stereo type for ditsy blondes she really has gone out of her way to fit it perfectly.
    Ex. Some people like airheads with fake boobs.
    Ex. She's just an airheaded bimbo, with an endless capacity to push aside unpleasant realities in favor of her more satisfying interests: young men and jewels.
    Ex. The concept is brilliant -- young Owen begins to get back his superpowers but they are, well, a little bit haywire.
    ----
    * atolondrado con = besotted with.
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo
    a) [ser] ( impetuoso) rash, impetuous; ( despistado) scatterbrained
    b) [estar] ( por golpe) dazed, stunned
    II
    - da masculino, femenino scatterbrain
    * * *
    = reckless, harebrained, ditzy [ditzier -comp., ditziest -sup.], ditz, dits, ditsy [ditsier -comp., ditsiest -sup.], airhead, airheaded, haywire.

    Ex: The article is entitled ' Reckless driving on the information highway, or, is the scholar of the research library effectively using the available resources?'.

    Ex: Then one day she finds herself shooting the moon with a scheme so harebrained and daring that it just might succeed.
    Ex: She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.
    Ex: She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.
    Ex: But then again, there are thousands of such ditses out there that need mental help.
    Ex: If there is a stereo type for ditsy blondes she really has gone out of her way to fit it perfectly.
    Ex: Some people like airheads with fake boobs.
    Ex: She's just an airheaded bimbo, with an endless capacity to push aside unpleasant realities in favor of her more satisfying interests: young men and jewels.
    Ex: The concept is brilliant -- young Owen begins to get back his superpowers but they are, well, a little bit haywire.
    * atolondrado con = besotted with.

    * * *
    1 [ SER] (alocado) impetuous; (despistado) scatterbrained
    2 [ ESTAR] (por un golpe) dazed, stunned
    masculine, feminine
    scatterbrain
    * * *

    Del verbo atolondrar: ( conjugate atolondrar)

    atolondrado es:

    el participio

    Multiple Entries:
    atolondrado    
    atolondrar
    atolondrado
    ◊ -da adjetivo

    a) [ser] ( impetuoso) rash, impetuous;

    ( despistado) scatterbrained
    b) [estar] ( por golpe) dazed, stunned

    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
    scatterbrain
    atolondrar ( conjugate atolondrar) verbo transitivo


    atolondrarse verbo pronominal


    ◊ no te atolondres, piénsalo bien don't rush into it, think it over carefully

    atolondrado,-a adjetivo foolish, feather-brained,
    ' atolondrado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    atolondrada
    English:
    scatterbrained
    * * *
    atolondrado, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [precipitado] foolish, thoughtless
    2. [aturdido] bewildered, confused
    ♦ nm,f
    [precipitado]
    es un atolondrado he's rather foolish, he's a bit of a fool
    * * *
    adj scatterbrained
    * * *
    atolondrado, -da adj
    1) aturdido: bewildered, dazed
    2) despistado: scatterbrained, absentminded

    Spanish-English dictionary > atolondrado

  • 6 aturrullado

    adj.
    1 bewildered, perplexed; flustered.
    2 addled, distraught.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: aturrullar.
    * * *
    Ex. Before she could respond and follow up with a question about her distraught state, Feng escaped to the women's room.
    * * *

    Ex: Before she could respond and follow up with a question about her distraught state, Feng escaped to the women's room.

    Spanish-English dictionary > aturrullado

  • 7 confuso

    adj.
    1 confused, addled, bewildered, muddle-headed.
    2 confusing, perplexing, tangled, confusional.
    3 confused, blurry, blurred, obscure.
    4 confused, cluttered, disordered, mixed-up.
    * * *
    1 (ideas) confused
    2 (estilo etc) obscure, confused
    3 (recuerdos, formas) vague, blurred
    4 (mezclado) mixed up
    5 figurado (turbado) confused, embarrassed
    * * *
    (f. - confusa)
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=poco claro) [ideas, noticias] confused; [recuerdo] hazy; [ruido] indistinct; [imagen] blurred

    tiene las ideas muy confusas — he has very confused ideas, his ideas are very mixed up

    2) (=desconcertado) confused

    no sé qué decir, estoy confuso — I don't know what to say, I'm overwhelmed

    * * *
    - sa adjetivo
    a) <idea/texto/explicación> confused; < recuerdo> confused, hazy; < imagen> blurred, hazy; < información> confused
    b) ( turbado) embarrassed, confused
    * * *
    = confusing, dim [dimmer -comp., dimmest -sup.], distraught, in confusion of purpose, indistinct, muddled, entangled, topsy-turvy, puzzled, messy [messier -comp., messiest -sup.], puzzling, mixed up, confused, in a state of turmoil, clouded, in a spin, dishevelled [disheveled, -USA], in disarray, foggy [foggier -comp., foggiest -sup.], blurry [blurrier -comp., blurriest -sup.], confounding, garbled, indistinctive, nonplussed [nonplused], addled, in a fog, chaotic, disorderly, shambolic, bleary [blearier -comp., bleariest -sup.], in a twirl, at sea, all over the place.
    Ex. The nature of the compilation of the code led to rather little consensus, and many alternative rules, which together made the code rather confusing.
    Ex. The genesis of this brave new world of solid state logic, in which bibliographic data are reduced to phantasmagoria on the faces of cathode-ray tubes (CRT), extends at most only three-quarters of a decade into the dim past.
    Ex. Before she could respond and follow up with a question about her distraught state, Feng escaped to the women's room.
    Ex. Without the ability to select when faced with these choices we would be like demented dogs chasing every attractive smell that reaches our noses in complete confusion of purpose.
    Ex. The typescript will be fuzzy and indistinct without the smooth, firm surface which the backing sheet offers.
    Ex. This paper analyses and proposes practical solutions to key problems in on-line IR, particulary in relation to ill-defined and muddled information requirements, concept representation in searching and text representation in indexing.
    Ex. The rapid spreading of electronic mail, bulletin boards, and newsletters give rise to an entangled pattern of standards.
    Ex. At a later stage he may make up topsy-turvy stories with reversals of the pattern; finally he will improvise and impose hiw own.
    Ex. While scanning the area under supervision, the librarian may detect persons who appear restless or puzzled.
    Ex. The author discusses current attempts to organize electronic information objects in a world that is messy, volatile and uncontrolled.
    Ex. The argument for expressiveness is that it helps users to find their way through the systematic arrangement, which is sometimes puzzling to them.
    Ex. They are mixed up as the talk meanders about, apparently without conscious pattern.
    Ex. She sat a long time on the couch, confused, questioning, pushing her thoughts into new latitudes.
    Ex. Before long the teachers were in a state of turmoil over the issue.
    Ex. The article 'The clouded crystal ball and the library profession' explains how the concepts of knowledge utilisation and information brokering are beginning to have an impact on the definition of the librarian's role.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'Digital revolution leaves pharmacists in a spin'.
    Ex. Ironically, there are very few who have realized the capitalist dream of easy profits and the concept of a new knowledged-based economy now looks somewhat disheveled.
    Ex. Sometimes cataloguers access other libraries' OPACs in order to resolve difficult problems when important parts of the item being catalogued are missing or are in disarray.
    Ex. What they will not do is clear up the foggy area in most cataloguers' minds, the area that leads to an inconsistent application of half-understood principles'.
    Ex. On the other hand, a distinction that was thought to be quite clear turns out to be rather blurry.
    Ex. The need to control for the effect of confounding variables is central to empirical research in many disciplines.
    Ex. The client phoned in the afternoon to tell me that there was garbled data again in the large text field they use for notes.
    Ex. This research suggests that people are threatened by categorizations that portray them as too distinctive or too indistinctive.
    Ex. He was nonplussed when the crowd he expected protesting his policy of arresting illegal immigrants turned out to be seven.
    Ex. They were too addled to come to any definite conclusion.
    Ex. After practice, however, the usually affable Jackson looked to be in a fog as he prepared to walk to his locker.
    Ex. Otherwise the situation would become chaotic.
    Ex. Empirical studies of decision making have found that the process is more disorderly than described in rational models.
    Ex. Hundreds of usually loyal fans booed and jeered as the tortured singer delivered a shambolic and apparently drunken performance.
    Ex. Her eyes were dry and her head bleary from spending all week totally consumed with work.
    Ex. I had never been to a professional golf tournament, and the excitement and action had my head in a twirl.
    Ex. This site seems to be giving tons of options and am completely at sea as to how to go about choosing the best one.
    Ex. Mr Hammond said the Liberal Democrats are ' all over the place' on the economy.
    ----
    * de manera confusa = hazily.
    * estar confuso = be at sixes and sevens with, be at a nonplus, be all at sea.
    * masa confusa = mush.
    * resultar confuso = prove + confusing.
    * sentirse confuso = feel at + sea, be all at sea.
    * ser confuso = be deceiving.
    * surgir de un modo confuso = grow + like Topsy.
    * todo confuso = in a state of disarray.
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo
    a) <idea/texto/explicación> confused; < recuerdo> confused, hazy; < imagen> blurred, hazy; < información> confused
    b) ( turbado) embarrassed, confused
    * * *
    = confusing, dim [dimmer -comp., dimmest -sup.], distraught, in confusion of purpose, indistinct, muddled, entangled, topsy-turvy, puzzled, messy [messier -comp., messiest -sup.], puzzling, mixed up, confused, in a state of turmoil, clouded, in a spin, dishevelled [disheveled, -USA], in disarray, foggy [foggier -comp., foggiest -sup.], blurry [blurrier -comp., blurriest -sup.], confounding, garbled, indistinctive, nonplussed [nonplused], addled, in a fog, chaotic, disorderly, shambolic, bleary [blearier -comp., bleariest -sup.], in a twirl, at sea, all over the place.

    Ex: The nature of the compilation of the code led to rather little consensus, and many alternative rules, which together made the code rather confusing.

    Ex: The genesis of this brave new world of solid state logic, in which bibliographic data are reduced to phantasmagoria on the faces of cathode-ray tubes (CRT), extends at most only three-quarters of a decade into the dim past.
    Ex: Before she could respond and follow up with a question about her distraught state, Feng escaped to the women's room.
    Ex: Without the ability to select when faced with these choices we would be like demented dogs chasing every attractive smell that reaches our noses in complete confusion of purpose.
    Ex: The typescript will be fuzzy and indistinct without the smooth, firm surface which the backing sheet offers.
    Ex: This paper analyses and proposes practical solutions to key problems in on-line IR, particulary in relation to ill-defined and muddled information requirements, concept representation in searching and text representation in indexing.
    Ex: The rapid spreading of electronic mail, bulletin boards, and newsletters give rise to an entangled pattern of standards.
    Ex: At a later stage he may make up topsy-turvy stories with reversals of the pattern; finally he will improvise and impose hiw own.
    Ex: While scanning the area under supervision, the librarian may detect persons who appear restless or puzzled.
    Ex: The author discusses current attempts to organize electronic information objects in a world that is messy, volatile and uncontrolled.
    Ex: The argument for expressiveness is that it helps users to find their way through the systematic arrangement, which is sometimes puzzling to them.
    Ex: They are mixed up as the talk meanders about, apparently without conscious pattern.
    Ex: She sat a long time on the couch, confused, questioning, pushing her thoughts into new latitudes.
    Ex: Before long the teachers were in a state of turmoil over the issue.
    Ex: The article 'The clouded crystal ball and the library profession' explains how the concepts of knowledge utilisation and information brokering are beginning to have an impact on the definition of the librarian's role.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'Digital revolution leaves pharmacists in a spin'.
    Ex: Ironically, there are very few who have realized the capitalist dream of easy profits and the concept of a new knowledged-based economy now looks somewhat disheveled.
    Ex: Sometimes cataloguers access other libraries' OPACs in order to resolve difficult problems when important parts of the item being catalogued are missing or are in disarray.
    Ex: What they will not do is clear up the foggy area in most cataloguers' minds, the area that leads to an inconsistent application of half-understood principles'.
    Ex: On the other hand, a distinction that was thought to be quite clear turns out to be rather blurry.
    Ex: The need to control for the effect of confounding variables is central to empirical research in many disciplines.
    Ex: The client phoned in the afternoon to tell me that there was garbled data again in the large text field they use for notes.
    Ex: This research suggests that people are threatened by categorizations that portray them as too distinctive or too indistinctive.
    Ex: He was nonplussed when the crowd he expected protesting his policy of arresting illegal immigrants turned out to be seven.
    Ex: They were too addled to come to any definite conclusion.
    Ex: After practice, however, the usually affable Jackson looked to be in a fog as he prepared to walk to his locker.
    Ex: Otherwise the situation would become chaotic.
    Ex: Empirical studies of decision making have found that the process is more disorderly than described in rational models.
    Ex: Hundreds of usually loyal fans booed and jeered as the tortured singer delivered a shambolic and apparently drunken performance.
    Ex: Her eyes were dry and her head bleary from spending all week totally consumed with work.
    Ex: I had never been to a professional golf tournament, and the excitement and action had my head in a twirl.
    Ex: This site seems to be giving tons of options and am completely at sea as to how to go about choosing the best one.
    Ex: Mr Hammond said the Liberal Democrats are ' all over the place' on the economy.
    * de manera confusa = hazily.
    * estar confuso = be at sixes and sevens with, be at a nonplus, be all at sea.
    * masa confusa = mush.
    * resultar confuso = prove + confusing.
    * sentirse confuso = feel at + sea, be all at sea.
    * ser confuso = be deceiving.
    * surgir de un modo confuso = grow + like Topsy.
    * todo confuso = in a state of disarray.

    * * *
    confuso -sa
    1 ‹idea/texto› confused; ‹recuerdo› confused, hazy; ‹imagen› blurred, hazy
    dio una explicación muy confusa he gave a very confused explanation
    las noticias son confusas reports are confused
    2 (turbado) embarrassed, confused
    * * *

     

    confuso
    ◊ -sa adjetivo

    a) ‹idea/texto/explicación› confused;

    ‹ recuerdo› confused, hazy;
    ‹ imagen› blurred, hazy;
    ‹ información› confused

    confuso,-a adjetivo
    1 (idea, argumento, etc) confused, unclear
    2 (desconcertado) confused, perplexed
    ' confuso' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    confusa
    - apabullar
    - despistado
    - enmarañado
    English:
    confused
    - confusing
    - flounder
    - fuzzy
    - garbled
    - indistinct
    - mixed-up
    - muddy
    - spin
    - unclear
    - foggy
    - hazy
    - muddled
    * * *
    confuso, -a adj
    1. [poco claro] [clamor, griterío] confused;
    [contorno, forma, imagen] blurred; [explicación] confused
    2. [turbado] confused, bewildered;
    estar confuso to be confused o bewildered
    * * *
    adj confused
    * * *
    confuso, -sa adj
    1) : confused, mixed-up
    2) : obscure, indistinct
    * * *
    confuso adj
    1. (persona) confused
    2. (instrucciones, explicación, etc) confused / confusing

    Spanish-English dictionary > confuso

  • 8 intrigado

    adj.
    intrigued, perplexed.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: intrigar.
    * * *
    1 intrigued
    * * *
    Ex. Supporting material -- cartoons, quotations and humorous excerpts -- are used to keep students intrigued and clues are allowed if students are unable to formulate a research strategy.
    * * *

    Ex: Supporting material -- cartoons, quotations and humorous excerpts -- are used to keep students intrigued and clues are allowed if students are unable to formulate a research strategy.

    * * *
    intrigado, -a adj
    intrigued
    * * *
    adj intrigued

    Spanish-English dictionary > intrigado

  • 9 anonadado

    adj.
    stunned.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: anonadar.
    * * *
    1→ link=anonadar anonadar
    1 dumbfounded, speechless
    \
    dejar anonadado,-a a alguien to dumbfound somebody, amaze somebody, take somebody aback, leave somebody speechless
    * * *

    me quedé anonadado ante un paisaje tan bello — I was stunned o left speechless by the beauty of the countryside

    * * *
    - da adjetivo dumbfounded, speechless
    * * *
    - da adjetivo dumbfounded, speechless
    * * *
    dumbfounded, speechless
    la noticia me dejó anonadado the news left me speechless, I was dumbfounded o completely taken aback by the news
    * * *

    Del verbo anonadar: ( conjugate anonadar)

    anonadado es:

    el participio

    Multiple Entries:
    anonadado    
    anonadar
    anonadado
    ◊ -da adjetivo

    dumbfounded, speechless
    anonadado,-a adjetivo astonished, astounded, speechless, dumbfounded: su reacción nos dejó anonadados, her reaction left us speechless

    ' anonadado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    anonadada
    English:
    devastate
    - stun
    * * *
    anonadado, -a adj
    1. [sorprendido] astonished, bewildered;
    se quedó anonadado cuando nos vio entrar he was totally astonished o taken aback when he saw us come in
    2. [abatido] stunned
    * * *
    anonadado, -da adj
    : dumbfounded, speechless

    Spanish-English dictionary > anonadado

  • 10 desubicado

    adj.
    1 lost, stray.
    2 confused, perplexed.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: desubicar.
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=mal situado) badly positioned
    2) Cono Sur (=falto de tacto) tactless, silly
    * * *
    - da adjetivo (AmS)
    a) [estar] ( desplazado) out of position
    b) [estar] ( desorientado) confused, disoriented
    * * *
    - da adjetivo (AmS)
    a) [estar] ( desplazado) out of position
    b) [estar] ( desorientado) confused, disoriented
    * * *
    ( AmS)
    1 [ ESTAR] (desplazado) out of position
    las vértebras estaban desubicadas the vertebrae were out of position
    personas políticamente desubicadas people who are unable to find a place within o who do not fit into the political framework
    2 [ ESTAR] (desorientado) confused, disoriented, disorientated ( BrE)
    se encontró solo y desubicado he felt alone and disoriented o confused
    adolescentes desubicados directionless teenagers, teenagers who have no purpose in life
    3 [ SER]
    (en cuestiones sociales): es tan desubicado he just doesn't have a clue ( colloq)
    * * *

    Del verbo desubicar: ( conjugate desubicar)

    desubicado es:

    el participio

    Multiple Entries:
    desubicado    
    desubicar
    desubicado
    ◊ -da adjetivo (AmS)





    * * *
    desubicado, -a Andes, RP
    ♦ adj
    1.
    estar desubicado [perdido] to feel lost
    2.
    ser desubicado [ridículo] to have no idea of how to behave
    ♦ nm,f
    es un desubicado he has no idea of how to behave
    * * *
    desubicado, -da adj
    1) : out of place
    2) : confused, disoriented

    Spanish-English dictionary > desubicado

  • 11 aturrullado *

    ADJ bewildered, perplexed

    Spanish-English dictionary > aturrullado *

  • 12 enfoscar

    v.
    1 to be uneasy, to be troubled or perplexed.
    2 to be immersed in business.
    3 to be cloudy (cielo).
    4 to stop up the holes in a wall after it is constructed.
    5 to plaster.
    * * *
    1.
    VT [+ pared] to fill with mortar
    2.
    See:

    Spanish-English dictionary > enfoscar

  • 13 revesado

    adj.
    1 intractable, stubborn, obstinate.
    2 difficult entangled, perplexed, obscure.
    3 complicated, difficult, entangled, wayward.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: revesar.
    * * *
    1 (enrevesado) complicated, difficult
    2 figurado (travieso) mischievous
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) [asunto] complicated, involved
    2) (=rebelde) [niño] unruly, uncontrollable

    Spanish-English dictionary > revesado

  • 14 tartalear

    v.
    1 to reel, to stagger. (Colloquial)
    2 to be perplexed; not to be able to talk (al hablar).
    * * *
    VI
    1) [al andar] [aturdido] to walk in a daze; [tambaleándose] to stagger, reel
    2) [al hablar] to stammer, be stuck for words

    Spanish-English dictionary > tartalear

  • 15 confusa

    f., (m. - confuso)
    * * *

    confuso,-a adjetivo
    1 (idea, argumento, etc) confused, unclear
    2 (desconcertado) confused, perplexed
    ' confusa' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    hallarse
    - jaleo
    - relación
    - tomate
    - embrollo
    - follón

    Spanish-English dictionary > confusa

  • 16 confundir

    • addle
    • befuddle
    • confound
    • confuse
    • dumfound
    • misdeem
    • misguide
    • mislead
    • muddle the issue
    • muddle up with
    • obscure
    • perpetuity
    • perplexed
    • put in disorder
    • throw into confusion

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > confundir

  • 17 confuso

    • addled
    • befuddled
    • bewildered
    • blurred
    • blurry
    • chaotic
    • cluttered
    • confused
    • confusing
    • confusional
    • disordered
    • fuddled
    • garbled
    • intricate
    • jumbled
    • mixed-up
    • muddle
    • muddle-headedness
    • pell-mell
    • pellmell
    • perpetuity due
    • perplexed
    • perplexedly
    • perplexity
    • scrambled
    • tangle
    • tanglement
    • turned-around
    • woolly-minded

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > confuso

  • 18 dejar perplejo

    • addle
    • bewilder
    • confound
    • discomfit
    • disconcert
    • dumbfound
    • dumfound
    • leave room for doubt
    • leave suddenly
    • perpetuity
    • perplexed

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > dejar perplejo

  • 19 desatentar

    • bewilder
    • perpetuity
    • perplexed

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > desatentar

  • 20 desconcertante

    • abashing
    • baffling
    • bewildering
    • disconcerting
    • mystification
    • mystique
    • perplexed
    • perplexity

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > desconcertante

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  • perplexed — perplexedly /peuhr plek sid lee/, adv. perplexedness, n. /peuhr plekst /, adj. 1. bewildered; puzzled: a perplexed state of mind. 2. complicated; involved; entangled. [1350 1400; ME perplex confused ( < L perplexus; see PER , COMPLEX) + ED2] * *… …   Universalium

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