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adjective
- 1. used for emphasis, especially to express anger or annoyance: informal, dated "he was a confounded nuisance"
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1. : confused, perplexed. 2. : damned. I can't close this confounded window. confoundedly adverb. Synonyms. accursed. accurst. blasted. cursed. curst. cussed. damnable. danged. darn. durn. darned. durned. deuced. doggoned. freaking. infernal. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of confounded in a Sentence.
CONFOUND definition: 1. to confuse and very much surprise someone, so that they are unable to explain or deal with a…. Learn more.
1. : to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity. tactics to confound the enemy. 2. a. : refute. sought to confound his arguments. b. : to put to shame : discomfit. a performance that confounded the critics. 3. : damn. 4. a. : to fail to discern differences between : mix up.
When you're confounded, you are confused. A confounded student might struggle with one question on a math test for twenty minutes. If a bird flies into your house through an open window and flaps around in a befuddled panic, it's confounded.
adjective [ before noun ] old-fashioned informal uk / kənˈfaʊn.dɪd / us / kənˈfaʊn.dɪd / Add to word list. used to express anger: What a confounded nuisance! SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Expressions of anger. ay. bally. beg. biscuit. blasted. bloody. dickens. dratted. egad. fie. flaming. flip. la. marry. need. precious.
to confuse and very much surprise someone, so that they are unable to explain or deal with a situation: confound someone by doing something A man has confounded doctors by recovering after he was officially declared dead. confound someone with something The singer confounded her critics with a remarkable follow-up album.
to treat or regard erroneously as identical; mix or associate by mistake: truth confounded with error. to mingle so that the elements cannot be distinguished or separated. to damn (used in mild imprecations): Confound it! to contradict or refute: to confound their arguments. to put to shame; abash. Archaic. to defeat or overthrow.
