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disorienting
adjective
mainly USus/dɪˈsɔːr.i.ən.t̬ɪŋ/uk /dɪˈsɔː.ri.ən.tɪŋ/(also mainly UKdisorientating)
making someone confused about where they are, where they are going, or what is happening:
When you arrive in daylight and you feel like it's night, it can be disorienting.
Light pollution can even have a disorienting effect on migratory birds.
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That first day in the new job was a little disorienting.
Organ soloists have to get used to new instruments fairly regularly, a process that can be disorienting.
The memorial is a deliberately disorienting maze of undulating concrete.
His art is a disorienting, dizzying experience.
I had these very disorienting feelings of bereavement.
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all of a doodahidiom
all over the placeidiom
alphabet soup
at seaidiom
disarray
discombobulation
disordered
disorganization
disorganized
muddle
muddle something up
muddle-headed
muddled
mush
turmoil
unaccountable
unaccountably
unexplainable
unexplained
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