Confused vs. Curious

Confusedverb

simple past tense and past participle of confuse

Curiousadjective

Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying.

‘Young children are naturally curious about the world and everything in it.’;

Confusedadjective

(of a person) unable to think clearly or understand

Curiousadjective

Caused by curiosity.

Confusedadjective

(of a person or animal) disoriented

Curiousadjective

Leading one to ask questions about; somewhat odd, out of the ordinary, or unusual.

‘The platypus is a curious creature, with fur like a mammal and a beak like a bird.’;

Confusedadjective

chaotic, jumbled or muddled

Curiousadjective

(obsolete) Careful, fastidious, particular; (specifically) demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.

Confusedadjective

making no sense; illogical

Curiousadjective

(obsolete) Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.

Confusedadjective

embarrassed

Curiousadjective

Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.

‘Little curious in her clothes.’; ‘How shall we,If he be curious, work upon his faith?’;

Confused

same as confounded; as, bewildered and confused.

Curiousadjective

Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.

‘To devise curious works.’; ‘His body couched in a curious bed.’;

Confused

lacking orderly continuity.

Curiousadjective

Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; - sometimes with after or of.

‘It is a pity a gentleman so very curious after things that were elegant and beautiful should not have been as curious as to their origin, their uses, and their natural history.’;

Confused

thrown into disorder; as, His workbench held a confused assortment of spare engine parts..

Curiousadjective

Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.

‘A multitude of curious analogies.’; ‘Many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.’; ‘Abstruse investigations in recondite branches of learning or sciense often bring to light curious results.’; ‘Many . . . which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them.’;

Confused

having lost one's bearings physically or mentally.

Curiousadjective

beyond or deviating from the usual or expected;

‘a curious hybrid accent’; ‘her speech has a funny twang’; ‘they have some funny ideas about war’; ‘had an odd name’; ‘the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves’; ‘something definitely queer about this town’; ‘what a rum fellow’; ‘singular behavior’;

Confused

not marked by fine distinctions.

Curiousadjective

eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns);

‘a curious child is a teacher's delight’; ‘a trap door that made me curious’; ‘curious investigators’; ‘traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers’; ‘curious about the neighbor's doings’;

Confused

causing bafflement and confusion.

Curiousadjective

having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more;

‘a trap door that made me curious’;

Confusedadjective

perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment;

‘obviously bemused by his questions’; ‘bewildered and confused’; ‘a cloudy and confounded philosopher’; ‘just a mixed-up kid’; ‘she felt lost on the first day of school’;

Confusedadjective

lacking orderly continuity;

‘a confused set of instructions’; ‘a confused dream about the end of the world’; ‘disconnected fragments of a story’; ‘scattered thoughts’;

Confusedadjective

having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity;

‘I frequently find myself disoriented when I come up out of the subway’; ‘the anesthetic left her completely disoriented’;

Confusedadjective

thrown into a state of disarray or confusion;

‘troops fleeing in broken ranks’; ‘a confused mass of papers on the desk’; ‘the small disordered room’; ‘with everything so upset’;

Confusedadjective

mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently;

‘the flood of questions left her bewildered and confused’;