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Addlepated

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Befuddled; confused.

adj. Eccentric; peculiar: "[Her] estates . . . are odes to addlepated excess, a melange of priceless antiques and thrift-store horrors” ( Michelle Green).

adj. Senseless; mad: "led the addlepated charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava” ( Thomas Flanagan).

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Addled; confused; stupid; flustered.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. stupid and confused

Word Usage

"There is a particularly misogynist school of romance critique which we are not interested in espousing; no, Maggie Stiefvater is not a great prose stylist, but neither is Tom Clancy, and we have yet to read a book review elaborating on what silly and addlepated creatures men are for their biological yearnings toward homoerotic narratives of exploding submarines and menacing Russians."

Equivalent

confused