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1. Having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity
   "I frequently find myself disoriented when I come up out of the subway"; "the anaesthetic left her completely disoriented"
   - confused, lost
    
2. Socially disoriented
   "we live in an age of rootless disoriented people"
   - alienated, anomic

1. Cause to be lost or disoriented
   "The overall and overwhelming popularity of idiot-level prime-time sitcoms is a testimonial to this need to disorient or disconnect"
   - disorientate

See also: disorientation, unoriented

Type of: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw

Antonym: orient

Encyclopedia: Disorient