Confounded

/kənˈfaʊndɪd/ · verb

Meaning

simple past and past participle of confound.

Definitions by Sense

1. simple past and past participle of confound
2. Confused, astonished.
3. Defeated, thwarted.
4. (colloquial) Extremely bad; very unpleasant; used as an intensifier.

Example Sentences

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

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

Reagan has famously stumped his chroniclers. His official biographer, Edmund Morris, was so confounded by the assignment that he resorted to fiction, producing a muddled portrait of “Dutch” (Reagan’s longtime nickname) that was blasted by reviewers.

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: […]

The confounded thing doesn't work.

"This is all stuff and nonsense," said the king; "I shall have to go myself, if we are to get this confounded whistle from him."

Some confounded fact we men have been living contentedly with ever since the day of creation would start up and knock the whole thing over.

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• more confounded
• most confounded

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