confounded
/kənˈfaʊndɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.82 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of confound
adj
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.""
Usage
Inflected Forms
more confounded (comparative)
most confounded (superlative)