confoundedly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adv

adv

Colloquial; Dated

adv

Colloquial; Dated

"I have been thinking, George, of changing our travelling dreſſes in the morning. I am grown confoundedly aſhamed of mine."
"That's most confoundedly good of you."

Etymology tree English confounded Middle English -ly English -ly English confoundedly From confounded + -ly.

more confoundedly (comparative) most confoundedly (superlative)

perplexedly

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What does confoundedly mean?

In a confounded manner; as if confused or thwarted.

Where does confoundedly come from?

Etymology tree English confounded Middle English -ly English -ly English confoundedly From confounded + -ly.

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