The noun TURKEY has 5 senses: 1. large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food. 2. a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1923. 3. a person who does something thoughtless or annoying.
adjective bewildering, complicated, puzzling, misleading, unclear, baffling, muddling, contradictory, ambiguous, inconsistent, perplexing, clear as mud (informal) The statement they issued was highly confusing.
The definition of confused is a person who cannot think clearly, or is something that is jumbled or without order. If you are sitting in a math class and don't understand math at all, this is an example of when you would be described as confused. A jumble of instructions delivered out-of-order and that do not make any sense are an example of confused information.