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Disoriented   /dɪsˈɔriˌɛntɪd/   Listen
Disoriented

adjective
1.
Having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity.  Synonyms: confused, lost.  "The anesthetic left her completely disoriented"
2.
Socially disoriented.  Synonyms: alienated, anomic.  "We live in an age of rootless alienated people"



Disorient

verb
1.
Cause to be lost or disoriented.  Synonym: disorientate.



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"Disoriented" Quotes from Famous Books



... everybody who lived here was disoriented, dwelling in that unending abjection produced by everlasting, irremediable poverty; many sloughed their occupations as a reptile its skin; others had none; some carpenters' or masons' helpers, because of their lack of initiative, understanding ...
— The Quest • Pio Baroja

... without fouling up the ships so they had to call the pilot's head "up." There was something comforting about it. He'd driven a couple of the experimental jobs, one with the cockpit set on gimbals, and one where the whole ship rotated, and he hadn't cared for them at all. Felt disoriented, with something nagging at his mind all the time, as though the ships had been sabotaged. A couple of pilots had gone nuts in the "spindizzy," and remembering his own feelings as he watched the sky go by, it was ...
— Slingshot • Irving W. Lande

... perhaps with suggestions of the arts of toilet, cosmetics, and coquetry, as if to promote decadent reaction to decadent stimuli. As in the Munchausen tale, the wolf slowly ate the running nag from behind until he found himself in the harness, so in the disoriented woman the mistress, virtuous and otherwise, is slowly supplanting the mother. Please she must, even though she can not admire, and can so easily despise men who can not lead her, although she become thereby ...
— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall

... out on the rim, the wheel had not been turning. There'd been no reference of up and down, other than the rim itself as an oddly curved floor. Now he felt disoriented. The wheel was spinning, the hub, therefore, seemed "up." And from the edge of the rim where he clung to its hairnet, ...
— Where I Wasn't Going • Walt Richmond

... that she'd been hoping he'd forgotten that, of the momentousness of his two items of news had left her, as her talk about kaleidoscopes indicated, rather disoriented. So he threw in, to give her time to get round to it, the information that both Sylvia and the little Williamson girl had decided they wanted to study music with him. "I agreed," he added, "to take them on, when I got around ...
— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster



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