disoriented

[ dis-awr-ee-en-tid, -ohr- ]

adjective

1. confused as to time or place; out of touch:

   therapy for disoriented patients.

   Synonyms: unhinged, unstable, distracted

Word History and Origins

Origin of disoriented¹

disorient + -ed ²

Example Sentences

The Hoshinoya Tokyo hotel has a deep-breathing spa regimen for people who arrive in Japan feeling a little disoriented.

From Washington Post

That’s the day Biles became so disoriented on her vault that she couldn’t risk competing in the team finals.

From Washington Post

I laid down again today after breakfast and managed to doze a bit and woke up totally disoriented.

From Washington Blade

As I found out later, he’d suffered a head injury while skiing at Colorado’s Eldora Mountain Resort, was completely confused and disoriented, and was trying to reach me.

From Outside Online

He was disoriented, likely due to exhaustion and mild dehydration.

From Outside Online

As he tried to make his way through a crowd of mourners late last month, he looked preoccupied and even disoriented.

From The Daily Beast

I was tired, my eyes burning from the road and kind of disoriented.

From The Daily Beast

His family believes he may be disoriented from a head injury he sustained last month, according to his sister.

From The Daily Beast

Police believe that at the second location, Graham became disoriented, walking alone as she traveled northeast.

From The Daily Beast

Perry blamed his poor performance in 2012 on recent back surgery, and painkillers that made him seem disoriented.

From The Daily Beast

Madeleine felt strangely disoriented, as though dreaming with delirious fever.

From Project Gutenberg

Unable to feed himself or dress without assistance; totally disoriented.

From Project Gutenberg

A stenogram of February 10, 1907, shows him to have acquired some grandiose ideas and to be still disoriented to a large extent.

From Project Gutenberg

Without this he would have been a pitiful figure, disoriented, and inharmonious with the world into which he was born.

From Project Gutenberg

It was normally an instantaneous reaction to meeting someone, but I was still disoriented.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• adrift
• astray
• bewildered
• lost
• perplexed
• unhinged
• unsettled