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[ US /kənˈfaʊndɪd/ ]
[ US /kənˈfaʊndɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
a cloudy and confounded philosopher
she felt lost on the first day of school
obviously bemused by his questions
bewildered and confused
just a mixed-up kid
How To Use confounded In A Sentence
- The term "gentilhomme" is so liable to be confounded with "gentleman" that it needs explaining, for, despite the similarity of derivation, no two words can be more distinct. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
- [42] Of such ministers and counselors, the holy king said that they who were confounded and ashamed should remove themselves far from him: _Avertantur statim erubescentes, qui dicunt mihi, "Euge, euge! The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 25 of 55 1635-36 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
- Why have those early predictions been confounded? Times, Sunday Times
- But I will say, as you shall see, that he matched their subtlety with equal subtlety; and from what I saw of him I have little doubt but what he would have confounded many a disputant in the synagogues. Chapter 17
- The first was entitled: "_Refutatio Samaritani Interim_, in quo vera religio cum sectis et corruptelis scelerate et perniciose confunditur -- Refutation of the Samaritan Interim, in which the true religion is criminally and perniciously confounded with the sects. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
- The result of this admixture of the real and the unreal is confusion thrice confounded. The Somnambulists
- They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
- He said that the expectation and excitement prompted by the Jubilee across the nation has confounded the cynics.
- So wonderfull are these thoughts that my spirit failes in me at the consideration thereof; and I am confounded to think that God, who hath done so much for me should have so little from me. Anne Bradstreet and Her Time
- A solemn anathema is pronounced against Nestorius and Eutyches; against all heretics by whom Christ is divided, or confounded, or reduced to a phantom. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
