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adjective

Confounded adj.

Confused; perplexed; unclear in mind or intent; bewildered.

Synonyms: at sea, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confused, mazed, mixed-up. "A cloudy and confounded philosopher."

Excessive; extreme; abominable. (Colloq.) "He was a most confounded tory." "The tongue of that confounded woman."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Confounded" Quotes from Famous Books

... I'm glad it's nothing more than that," he said with an air of relief. "I was afraid, it was some confounded woman. There's always that danger, you know, when a locum is young and happens—if I may say so, Jervis—to be a good-looking fellow. Let us hear about ...

— The Mystery of 31 New Inn • R. Austin Freeman

... flower, just as it seemed in life. It may be the same with the human being. The soul has as much escaped you as the essence or elements of the flower. Still you may make a spectrum of it. And this phantom, though in the popular superstition it is held to be the soul of the departed, must not be confounded with the true soul; it is but the eidolon of the dead form. Hence, like the best attested stories of ghosts or spirits, the thing that most strikes us is the absence of what we hold to be soul,—that is, of superior emancipated intelligence. These apparitions come for little or no object,—they ...

— Haunted and the Haunters • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... smashed splendidly; whoever it fell on uttered a little shrill yell and paused, confounded by the darkness. Miss Gregory, her eyes more tuned to it, could make out the blur of white clothes; with noiseless feet she moved towards them. She was all purpose and directness; no tremor disturbed her. As calmly as she would have shaken hands with the Consul she reached ...

— The Second Class Passenger • Perceval Gibbon

... albifrontata. The peculiar streaky longitudinal character of the markings, almost wholly confined to the large end, best distinguishes the eggs of the Ioras from those of any other Indian bird with which they are likely to be confounded. ...

— The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 • Allan O. Hume

... all this to imposture; but when he reflected upon what she had already told him, he felt perfectly confounded with amazement. The prophetess then went to her father's counter and wrote something upon a small fragment of paper, which she handed to him. No earthly language could now express his astonishment, not from any belief he entertained that she possessed supernatural power, ...

— The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton

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