DISORIENTED


Meaning of DISORIENTED in English

adjective

1.

a. : markedly displaced from a normal, usual, or accustomed relationship with others or with the world

his fellow employees are all badly disoriented … and include a homicidal pastrymaker, a sluttish salesgirl, and a former German petty functionary — New Yorker

b. : confused as to aim or purpose

the present disoriented condition of the world — Yale Review

2. : having no fixed or accustomed relationship with society or its more common ideologies : at sea

a poet and intellectual of the most sophisticated and disoriented type

3. : wandering in the mind : having no rational grasp of time, place, or one's own identity

he was conscious but disoriented and close to death — John Kobler

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