Thinking and knowing

Synonyms for disoriented

The synonym for disoriented recorded in this bank is lost, in the sense "having lost your bearings". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for disoriented

lostadjective, in the sense "having lost your bearings"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day disoriented is audited in a second meaning.

The senseadjectiveTier 3, RidgelineThinking and knowing

having lost your bearings

The anesthetic left her completely disoriented.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

lost

Same sentence, swapped: The anesthetic left her completely lost.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

unbalanced
demented
unsettled

Where disoriented turns up in the game

disoriented is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play disoriented

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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