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Adjective: disorienting  `dis'oree`enting
  1. Causing loss of physical or intellectual bearings
    "making so many turns to the right and then the left was completely disorienting"; "a sharp blow to the head can be disorienting"
Verb: disorient  dis'oree`ent
  1. Cause to be lost or disoriented
    - disorientate

See also: confusing, disorientation, estranging, stunning, stupefying, unoriented

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

Antonym: orient, orienting

Encyclopedia: Disorient