Confounded

//kənˈfaʊndɪd// adj, verb, slang

adj, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of confound form-of, participle, past

    "Here Mrs. Higgs paused for a moment, and drew out a huge red pocket-handkerchief, with which her face was for some minutes confounded."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Confused, astonished.

    "The media is very confounded right now. They're very confused. They don't know whether to trash themselves, trash their colleagues, or what."

  2. 2
    Defeated, thwarted.

    "Nine times the Space that measures Day and Night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquisht, rowling in the fiery Gulfe Confounded though immortal: […]"

  3. 3
    Extremely bad; very unpleasant; used as an intensifier. colloquial

    "The confounded thing doesn't work."

Adjective
  1. 1
    perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment wordnet

Synonyms

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bewildereddamnedabashedabashedabsoluteaddled

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"He was confounded at the sight of the teacher."

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