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muddlesome

adj

Etymology

From muddle + -some.

  1. derived from moddelen — “to make muddy”
  2. inherited from modelen
  3. suffixed as muddlesome — “muddle + some”

Definitions

  1. Characterised or marked by muddling

    Characterised or marked by muddling; confusing, lacking in order; tending to muddle.

    • Lucy peered at the pictures with her face close to the page, and though they had seemed crowded and muddlesome before, she found she could now see them quite clearly.
    • Without this, all social concern will be muddlesome meddling, and all work for the future will be planned disaster.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA