disoriented adj 1: 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" [syn: {confused}, {lost}] 2: socially disoriented; "anomic loners musing over their fate"; "we live in an age of rootless alienated people" [syn: {alienated}, {anomic}]