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disoriented

Speech parts

1. disoriented - Adjective

2. disoriented - Verb

3. disoriented - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

socially disoriented

having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity

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In my judgment, my buildings are less likely to burn to the ground during one of your visits if you are disoriented from being treated like a sultan. Jim Butcher

Shun security,' I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. 'Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isn't agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort. John Burdett

You are disoriented. Blackness swims toward you like a school of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot. Douglas Adams

Perhaps never before have the peoples of the world been so close to losing the very core of their humanity; for of what use are cosmic energies, if they are handled by disoriented and demoralized men? Lewis Mumford

Fortunately, I was supposed to look confused and disoriented because, God, I felt that way. Dick York

Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield. Billy Collins

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