Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being confused.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being confused.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Able to beconfused . - noun A word or phrase that is easily confused with another
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective so similar as to be easily identified for another thing
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Examples
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It's also easily confusable with iPod, and it's owned by Fujitsu in the USA.
Archive 2010-01-01 2010
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It's also easily confusable with iPod, and it's owned by Fujitsu in the USA.
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Best spelling test I ever saw was one that deliberately threw together words with confusable spelling just to make it harder: Which of the following words is incorrect?
Jen GraduRants 2010
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The spraypaint used to be an homage to Woody Allen, but is now nearly ruined and more confusable with a violent album cover.
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The spraypaint used to be an homage to Woody Allen, but is now nearly ruined and more confusable with a violent album cover.
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Since husbandry et cetera influences would predate and influence both eugenics and evolutionary biology as a common ancestor .-, the relationship is both clearly there and clearly confusable.
Dr. West, meet Dr. Tinkle, Creationist eugenicist - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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I also found a potentially very useful site called Newsroom101.com, full of exercises in grammar, AP style, and for you Most Egregious Misuse addicts, exercises in easily confusable words.
The WritingYA Weblog: Fun for Your Inner Editor a. fortis 2007
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I also found a potentially very useful site called Newsroom101.com, full of exercises in grammar, AP style, and for you Most Egregious Misuse addicts, exercises in easily confusable words.
Archive 2007-08-01 tanita davis 2007
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And why even with these two more confusable entities steps couldn't have been taken to remove any false impression of approval or liability.
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He should have consented to know but the grand personal adventure on the grand personal basis: nothing short of this, no poor cognisance of confusable, pettifogging things, the sphere of earth-grubbing questions and two-penny issues, would begin to be, on any side, Olympian enough.
The Finer Grain Henry James 1879
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