Definition of mixed up in English:

mixed up

adjective

informal

(of a person) suffering from psychological or emotional problems.
a lonely mixed-up teenager
Example sentencesExamples
- I've always had close friends, who knew about my mixed-up family and were wonderful in taking care of me.
- She might ride her own horse, play the cello and have a public-school education, but she is as lost and mixed-up as her new-found friend.
- She didn't know how to deal with all these mixed-up emotions and confusions.
- He was the product of mixed-up parents who couldn't spell.
- I'm just a mixed-up caveman writer who is confused by all this technology.
- How many mailboxes did just one mixed-up teenager blow up before he was caught?
- Set in an elite girls' school, the film has a group of mixed-up girls testing the limits of teen behaviour while finding their various ways in life.
- He was something of a mixed-up kid from Caterham, Surrey.
- Some of the funniest moments occur as the siblings chat and joke with each other in their cramped house and chip shop or flirt with life outside their mixed-up family.
- He is a very mixed-up man, very contradictory in what he says and how he says it.
- I'm very hesitant to do so, especially in our mixed-up world.
- Perhaps it was his equivalent of the mark where a mixed-up teenager might have cut himself.
- He emerged as a mixed-up teenager, seeking a job and closer contact with the revolutionaries.
- It as almost as if I am back in the mid-to-late 1970s: a wounded, mixed-up kid suffering in an environment which he perceives as callously indifferent, bordering on overtly hostile.
- Soon they are joined by Jess, a mixed-up girl in her early twenties.
- They were not terrorists in the conventional sense but mixed-up kids.
- Your mixed-up feelings are legitimate, but it's not too late to talk now.
- Normally if you have a problem away from football you can go on to the park and get a release, but I wasn't able to do that because I was so mixed-up.
- Put more baldly, he was recognisably mixed-up; and although that made him maddeningly undependable as a politician, it humanised him as a man.
- The actions of the major players in this drama have been mixed-up and incoherent, and have tended to widen, not narrow, the crisis.
Synonyms
confused, at sea, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, muddled, perplexed
maladjusted, ill-adjusted, disturbed, neurotic, unbalanced
informal screwed up, untogether, hung up, messed up
vulgar slang fucked up
archaic mazed
See also: mix

词汇	mixed up
释义	Definition of mixed up in English: mixed up adjective informal (of a person) suffering from psychological or emotional problems. a lonely mixed-up teenager Example sentencesExamples I've always had close friends, who knew about my mixed-up family and were wonderful in taking care of me. She might ride her own horse, play the cello and have a public-school education, but she is as lost and mixed-up as her new-found friend. She didn't know how to deal with all these mixed-up emotions and confusions. He was the product of mixed-up parents who couldn't spell. I'm just a mixed-up caveman writer who is confused by all this technology. How many mailboxes did just one mixed-up teenager blow up before he was caught? Set in an elite girls' school, the film has a group of mixed-up girls testing the limits of teen behaviour while finding their various ways in life. He was something of a mixed-up kid from Caterham, Surrey. Some of the funniest moments occur as the siblings chat and joke with each other in their cramped house and chip shop or flirt with life outside their mixed-up family. He is a very mixed-up man, very contradictory in what he says and how he says it. I'm very hesitant to do so, especially in our mixed-up world. Perhaps it was his equivalent of the mark where a mixed-up teenager might have cut himself. He emerged as a mixed-up teenager, seeking a job and closer contact with the revolutionaries. It as almost as if I am back in the mid-to-late 1970s: a wounded, mixed-up kid suffering in an environment which he perceives as callously indifferent, bordering on overtly hostile. Soon they are joined by Jess, a mixed-up girl in her early twenties. They were not terrorists in the conventional sense but mixed-up kids. Your mixed-up feelings are legitimate, but it's not too late to talk now. Normally if you have a problem away from football you can go on to the park and get a release, but I wasn't able to do that because I was so mixed-up. Put more baldly, he was recognisably mixed-up; and although that made him maddeningly undependable as a politician, it humanised him as a man. The actions of the major players in this drama have been mixed-up and incoherent, and have tended to widen, not narrow, the crisis. Synonyms confused, at sea, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, muddled, perplexed maladjusted, ill-adjusted, disturbed, neurotic, unbalanced informal screwed up, untogether, hung up, messed up vulgar slang fucked up archaic mazed See also: mix
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