• abashed, distracted, flustered, nonplussed, perplexed, self-conscious
• agitated, blurred, clouded, cloudy, diffuse, hugger-mugger, incoherent, intricate, loose, motley, muddled, muddy, obscure, roily, troubled, turbid, unsettled
• blanketing, disorder, distraction, disturbance, interruption, nuisance, perturbation
• to baffle, to bewilder, to disorient, to disorientate, to mystify, to put about, to stick, stuck, to stump
• to abash, to bewilder, to confound, to discomfit, to disconcert, to embarrass, to faze, to flummox, to flurry, to hobble, to nonplus, to perplex, to put out, to puzzle, to stick up
• to get balled up, to get flurried, to lose one's bearings
• baffling, bewildering, confusing