CONFOUNDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does confounded mean? 

• CONFOUNDED (adjective)
  The adjective CONFOUNDED has 1 sense:

1. perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment

  Familiarity information: CONFOUNDED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONFOUNDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment

Synonyms:

at sea; baffled; befuddled; bemused; bewildered; confounded; confused; lost; mazed; mixed-up

Context example:

she felt lost on the first day of school

Similar:

perplexed (full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment)

 Context examples 

How the squirrel’s tissues adapt to the cold and metabolic stress has confounded researchers.

(Researchers develop “hibernation in a dish” to study how animals adapt to the cold, National Institutes of Health)

Come, Miss Morland, be quick, for the others are in a confounded hurry to be off.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Here I have this confounded son of a Dutchman sitting in my own house drinking of my own rum!

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The Blefuscudians, who had not the least imagination of what I intended, were at first confounded with astonishment.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Here there was a choke that couldn't be controlled, so he decapitated buttercups while he cleared his 'confounded throat'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The tremendous sea itself, when I could find sufficient pause to look at it, in the agitation of the blinding wind, the flying stones and sand, and the awful noise, confounded me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And really, after a day or two of confusion worse confounded, it was delightful by degrees to invoke order from the chaos ourselves had made.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Sam, stop your confounded pipe, or I shall be after you.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“The worst of the story is,” said he, “that I show myself up as such a confounded fool. Of course it may work out all right, and I don’t see that I could have done otherwise; but if I have lost my crib and get nothing in exchange I shall feel what a soft Johnnie I have been.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was mortified, shocked, confounded.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)