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confounded
CIDE DICTIONARY
confounded, a.
- Confused; perplexed; unclear in mind or intent; bewildered. [1913 Webster]"A cloudy and confounded philosopher." [1913 Webster]
- Excessive; extreme; abominable. [1913 Webster]"He was a most confounded tory." [1913 Webster]"The tongue of that confounded woman." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
confounded, adj. colloq. damned (a confounded nuisance!).
Derivative
confoundedly adv.
THESAURUS
confounded
Byzantine, absolute, addled, agape, aghast, agog, all agog, all up with, amazed, astonished, astounded, at a loss, at gaze, awed, awestruck, baffled, balled up, bamboozled, beat, beaten, beguiled, belied, bested, bewildered, bewitched, blamed, blankety-blank, blasted, blessed, breathless, buffaloed, captivated, complex, complicated, confused, confuted, convoluted, crabbed, cursed, cussed, dadburned, daedal, danged, darned, dashed, dazed, defeated, deflated, denied, deuced, devious, discarded, discomfited, discredited, dismayed, dismissed, disproved, disputed, doggone, doggoned, done for, done in, down, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, elaborate, embrangled, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, entangled, enthralled, entranced, execrable, exploded, exposed, fallen, fascinated, fixed, flabbergasted, floored, fouled up, fuddled, gaping, gauping, goldarned, goshdarn, gross, hors de combat, hypnotized, implicated, impugned, in a dilemma, in awe, in awe of, in suspense, infernal, intricate, invalidated, involuted, involved, knotted, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, lambasted, lathered, licked, lost in wonder, loused up, many-faceted, marveling, matted, mazy, meandering, mesmerized, messed up, mixed up, mucked up, muddled, multifarious, mystified, negated, negatived, nonplussed, on tenterhooks, on the skids, open-eyed, openmouthed, out-and-out, outdone, outright, overborne, overcome, overmastered, overmatched, overpowered, overridden, overthrown, overturned, overwhelmed, panicked, perplexed, popeyed, punctured, put to rout, puzzled, ramified, rank, rapt in wonder, refuted, rejected, roundabout, routed, ruddy, ruined, scattered, screwed up, settled, shocked, shown up, silenced, skinned, skinned alive, snarled, spellbound, staggered, stampeded, staring, straight-out, stuck, stumped, stupefied, subtle, surprised, tangled, tangly, thrown, thunderstruck, trimmed, trounced, twisted, under a charm, undone, unmitigated, upset, whelmed, whipped, wide-eyed, wonder-struck, wondering, worstedROGET THESAURUS
confounded
Badness
N badness, hurtfulness, virulence, evil doer, bane, plague spot, evil star, ill wind, hoodoo, Jonah, snake in the grass, skeleton in the closet, amari aliquid, thorn in the side, malignity, malevolence, tender mercies, ill-treatment, annoyance, molestation, abuse, oppression, persecution, outrage, misusage, injury, knockout drops, badness, peccancy, abomination, painfulness, pestilence, guilt, depravity, hurtful, harmful, scathful, baneful, baleful, injurious, deleterious, detrimental, noxious, pernicious, mischievous, full of mischief, mischief-making, malefic, malignant, nocuous, noisome, prejudicial, disserviceable, disadvantageous, wide-wasting, unlucky, sinister, obnoxious, untoward, disastrous, oppressive, burdensome, onerous, malign, corrupting &c (corrupt), virulent, venomous, envenomed, corrosive, poisonous, deadly, destructive, inauspicious, bad, ill, arrant, as bad as bad can be, dreadful, horrid, horrible, dire, rank, peccant, foul, fulsome, rotten, rotten at the core, vile, base, villainous, mean, injured, deteriorated, unsatisfactory, exceptionable indifferent, below par, illcontrived, ill-conditioned, wretched, sad, grievous, deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, pitiable, woeful, evil, wrong, depraved, shocking, reprehensible, hateful, hateful as a toad, abominable, detestable, execrable, cursed, accursed, confounded, damned, damnable, infernal, diabolic, unadvisable, unprofitable, incompetent, irremediable, badly, wrong, ill, to one's cost, where the shoe pinches, bad is the best: the worst come to the worst, herba mala presto cresco, wrongs unredressed or insults unavenged.For further exploring for "confounded" in Webster Dictionary Online