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muddle-headed

muddle-headed adjective: characterized by vague or confused thinking: foolish, dull-witted, semi-conscious.

Adjective

muddle-headed (comparative more muddle-headed, superlative most muddle-headed)

  1. Characterized by vague or confused thinking: foolish, dull-witted, semi-conscious.
    • Near-synonyms: muddled, muddied, addleheaded, addlebrained, addled, addlepated
    • The Prime Minister provoked a backlash led by Sir Jonathon Porritt, chairman of the Government's Sustainable Development Commission, who said Mr Blair's leadership on the issue in Britain had been "patchy and muddle-headed".2007 Jan. 10, The Independent

muddle-headed meaning in Hindi and Urdu

muddle-headed in Hindi

muddle-headed
नासमझ nāsamajh

muddle-headed in Urdu

muddle-headed
ناسمجھ nāsamajh

Synonyms of muddle-headed

Forms of muddle-headed

comparativemore muddle-headed
superlativemost muddle-headed

Origin of muddle-headed

From muddle + headed.

Questions about muddle-headed

What does muddle-headed mean?
Muddle-headed means characterized by vague or confused thinking: foolish, dull-witted, semi-conscious.
What is muddle-headed in Hindi?
Muddle-headed in Hindi is नासमझ (nāsamajh). See Muddle-headed meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is muddle-headed?
Muddle-headed is an adjective.

Words near muddle-headed in the dictionary

  1. muddle along
  2. muddle on
  3. muddle the waters
  4. muddle through
  5. muddle up
  6. muddle-headed
  7. muddlebrained
  8. muddled
  9. muddled along
  10. muddled the waters
  11. muddled through

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Adapted from Wiktionary: muddle-headed (page history and authors); नासमझ (Hindi) (page history and authors); ناسمجھ (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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