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1. Having lost your bearings; confused as to time, place or personal identity
   "the anaesthetic left her completely disoriented"; "I frequently find myself disoriented when I come up out of the subway";
   - 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: unoriented

Type of: baffle, beat, bedevil, befuddle, bewilder, confound, confuse, discombobulate [informal], dumbfound, flummox, fox, fuddle, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, throw, vex

Antonym: orient

Encyclopedia: Disoriented