Synonyms:
baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at_sea
Meaning: perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment; "obviously bemused by his questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt lost on the first day of school"
Usage examples
"Nay, but there is no such confounded hurry.
"You get so confounded many wild stories about Rakkeed.
The officer retired confounded, humiliated, and repentant.
'I am utterly confounded, and must plead guilty to all your just reproaches.
Gun smashed in that confounded fall, so I can't even fire a shot to call help.
The result of this admixture of the real and the unreal is confusion thrice confounded.
It is possible to imagine an extreme point at which freedom and equality would meet and be confounded together.
I shall take some lunch and plenty of shot, and have a glorious time, even if I don't meet that confounded beast.
I was confounded and said, 'Let some one else pilot the ship;' withdrawing myself from any further agency in their wickedness.
I am Napoleon Bonaparte Froissart! and if I havn't married my great, great, grandmother, I wish I may be everlastingly confounded!"