Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: confounded
IPA transcription: [kənf'aʊndɪd]
adverb meaning of the word
  • 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!"