Confusing vs Nebulous - What's the difference?
confusing | nebulous | Related terms |
difficult to understand; not clear as lacking order, chaotic etc
In the form of a cloud or haze; hazy.
Vague or ill-defined.
* 1915 , Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
Relating to a nebula or nebulae.
Confusing is a related term of nebulous.
As adjectives the difference between confusing and nebulous
is that confusing is difficult to understand; not clear as lacking order, chaotic etc while nebulous is in the form of a cloud or haze; hazy.As a verb confusing
is .confusing
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Several sections in that book are really confusing .
Verb
(head)nebulous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The magistrate could not possibly, on the evidence, have held them for a higher court. On the one hand the compositors and pressmen were forced to admit that the light was uncertain, that they were themselves much perturbed, and that it was difficult for them to swear to the identity of the assailants; although they believed that the accused were among them. Cross examined by the clever attorney who had been engaged by McGinty, they were even more nebulous in their evidence.