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- Dictionarydiscombobulated/ˌdɪskəmˈbɒbjʊleɪtɪd/
adjective
- 1. confused and disconcerted: humorous "he is looking a little pained and discombobulated"
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Aug 18, 2011 · "I had had a psycholytic dose of LSD, one that allowed the patient to explore his psyche in an unconstrained but still deliberate manner while remaining sufficiently combobulated to talk about it." from "How To Change Your Mind" by Michael Pollan, Penguin Books 2019, page 253. Here "combobulated" means the opposite of "discombobulated".
Dec 23, 2014 · The fact that discombobulated is made up and not really derived from combobulated does mean that you can't use combobulated. I think more or less anyone would understand what you meant, and if it caught on, combobulated would simply be derived from discombobulated. Combobulated is, in other words, a perfectly cromulent word to me. –
Feb 16, 2019 · It is this nonsense quality that gives the word its meaning—i.e., to throw into a state of confusion. To be discombobulated is to be thoroughly befuddled. Discombobulate is still a light word and might be out of place in more formal contexts, but it does turn up fairly often in edited publications (The Grammarist) Discombobulate v.:
Nov 11, 2015 · Discombobulated was going to be my answer. It not only fits the definition for the OP's request, its just ...
Yes indeed, he "achieved his utmost desired effect" when we all got puzzled paradoxically in a discombobulated discombobulation of words. – ErickBest Commented Oct 7, 2014 at 11:06
Jun 25, 2015 · "Bamboozle" and "befuddle" are the best so far, they're the only ones that fit and are also in common usage. I'd use "Bamboozle" when implying that it is a deliberate attempt to manipulate someone into something (e.g. a salesman trying to 'blind someone with science' or a politician creating vague fears), and "Befuddle" when it could be an accident (e.g. a poor communicator) or where creating confusion is the end goal (e.g. a politician dodging a question by confusing everyone, then changing ...
Dec 25, 2011 · Here’s the OED’s etymological note (lightly edited): First mentioned in 1772 as a new piece of fashionable slang; possibly of dialectal origin; Moor 1823 records it as a Suffolk word, and Jamieson, Supplement 1825, has flabrigast, 'to gasconade' [to boast extravagantly], flabrigastit 'worn out with exertion', as used in Perthshire.
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Oct 16, 2013 · Pretty similar, yes? Look a little more closely, however. The first pair indicates that you want to know what aspect of the word discombobulated applies to me, and not necessarily a definition of the word. The second pair indicates you want me to give you a definition of the word discombobulated. There's a difference between the two, but it is ...
Oct 7, 2013 · I like flummoxed and gobsmacked. Dumbfounded is good too. Then there's that great lexeme that also comes to mind, discombobulated, but unfortunately it doesn't imply vacillation, but rather, mental disarray. :(–
