Confounded
/kənˈfaʊndɪd/ adj, verb, slang
adj, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Verb
- 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 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 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 Extremely bad; very unpleasant; used as an intensifier. colloquial
"The confounded thing doesn't work."
Adjective
- 1 perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment wordnet
Example
More examples"He was confounded at the sight of the teacher."