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confusing

con·fus·ing

confusing

 
pronunciation:
kn fyuz ihng
part of speech: adjective
definition: hard to figure out or to get the correct meaning from; puzzling.
The homework problem was a little confusing, so some students did it one way and other students did it a different way.
synonyms:
bewildering, misleading, puzzling
derivation: confusingly (adv.)