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Disorientated vs Puzzled - What's the difference?

disorientated | puzzled |

As verbs the difference between disorientated and puzzled

is that disorientated is past tense of disorientate while puzzled is past tense of puzzle.

As an adjective puzzled is

confused or perplexed.

disorientated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (disorientate)

    • disorientate

    English

    Verb

    (disorientat)
  • * 1941 , Frederic William Eggleston, Search for a Social Philosophy , p254
    • Ideas often disorientate a system which has been formed on a particular pattern and make it inapplicable; so ideas may lead to the readjustment of groups and sometimes of political boundaries.

    Derived terms

    * disorientation

    puzzled

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Confused or perplexed.
  • * 1848 , , Vanity Fair , Bradbury and Sons, 11:
    • (...) when the day of the departure came, between her two customs of laughing and crying, Miss Sedley was greatly puzzled how to act.
  • * 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
    • Once or twice he scratched his head, and stared out of the window with a puzzled frown. And each time, after a brief survey of the other side of Half Moon Street, he turned back again to the breakfast table with a grin.

    Derived terms

    * puzzledly * puzzledness

    Verb

    (head)
  • (puzzle)