1. (

• disorient ,
• disorientate

) cause to be lost or disoriented ;

1. (

• confused ,
• disoriented ,
• lost

) having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity; "I frequently find myself disoriented when I come up out of the subway"; "the anesthetic left her completely disoriented" ;

2. (

• alienated ,
• anomic ,
• disoriented ,

) socially disoriented; "anomic loners musing over their fate"; "we live in an age of rootless alienated people" ;