Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word CONFOUNDED

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Definitions of CONFOUNDED

1. inflection of confound
2. Confused, astonished.
3. Defeated, thwarted.
4. (colloquial) Extremely bad; very unpleasant; used as an intensifier.

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Examples of Using CONFOUNDED in a Sentence

• In the past he has been confounded with Robert of Chester (Latin Robertus Castrensis), another English translator active in Spain in the mid-twelfth century; and at least one modern scholar believes they are the same person.
• The use of province in this hierarchy undoubtedly confounded the effort to develop a physiographical map consistent across the North American continent since Canada used province as the term for its first-level political subdivision.
• Later chapters in the books deal with atomic structure (Mr Tompkins spends time as a conduction electron, returning to consciousness when he is annihilated in an encounter with a positron), and thermodynamics (the Professor expounds an analogy between the second law of thermodynamics and the bias towards a gambling casino before being confounded by a local reversal of the second law through the intervention of Maxwell's demon who has introduced himself to Maud in one of her dreams).
• Although the album confounded critics upon its release, it has since been viewed as one of Hendrix's best works and one of the greatest albums of all time, being featured on various "greatest albums" lists, including Q's 2003 list of the 100 greatest albums and various editions of Rolling Stones list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time", on which it was ranked 53rd in the 2020 iteration.
• There is some lore in which the balaur is considered weather-making, and living in an airborne state, but these types of balaur are sometimes interchangeably called hala or ala, being confounded with the pan-Slavic air and water demon.
• heidelbergensis to only Europe or to also include African and Asian specimens, and this is further confounded by the type specimen (Mauer 1) being a jawbone, because jawbones feature few diagnostic traits and are generally missing among Middle Pleistocene specimens.
• However, other contemporaries were confounded and scandalised, denouncing Maria as a self-seeking fraud and labeled her ecstatic behavior "lascivious".
• The taxonomy of this species was confused in the past and confounded with the sympatric jungle babbler and the orange-billed babbler of Sri Lanka.
• Charley lands his plane at the junkyard and, in an effort to fool observers, acts overjoyed and hugs a confounded Boyle.
• Each night she and Stephen are forced to attend balls held by the Gentleman with the Thistledown Hair in the Faerie kingdom of Lost-Hope, where they dance all night long; their attempts to communicate their situation are confounded by magic, with their speech rendered into nonsense.
• Species that adapted to the same pollinator often independently evolved a similar floral morphology which confounded the infrageneric classification of Disa until cladistic analysis was applied to DNA sequences from this genus.
• The Jets defense confounded Morrall, who had only six completions on 17 attempts, with three interceptions in the first half, including an interception to the Jets' Jim Hudson while Colts' star receiver Jimmy Orr, uncovered in the end zone, waved his hands to no avail.
• What the devil does the confounded jilt mean by being hurt in her circumstances? This is the grossest cunning.
• He published the Armorial général, ou registre de la noblesse de France (10 vols, 1738–1768), which must not be confounded with the publication written by his uncle, inasmuch as it related solely to noble families and was not an official collection.
• Strabo, in the same section notes that the Greeks confounded the Mysians with the Getae (or Geto-Dacians).
• It often appears and coexists confounded in environments that also generate ozone, such as pine forests with photodegradation of turpentine.
• Completely out of his element, Ted is confounded by blizzards, thin ice, foxes, skunks, grizzly bears, an intimidating, crusty old mountain man named James "Thunder Jack" Johnson, and the aggressive, defiant lead dog, Demon.
• He gravely resigned the empty title of General, which only made confusion worse confounded, and rode away to act as colonel of his own Lincolnshire regiment, pitying his master's perplexity, and resolved that no private pique should hinder him from doing his duty.
• With his long-stemmed pipe, raincoat and hat, and his pants often too short, Hulot moves about somewhat lost outside of his "old quarter" of Paris, bemused and confounded by urbanization and technology.
• Eventually, confounded both by all the things she knows—or believes—did not happen, with no one believing her, and hectored ceaselessly, Ellen suffers a breakdown on the witness stand.

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