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CONFOUNDEDLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does confoundedly mean?
• CONFOUNDEDLY (adverb)
The adverb CONFOUNDEDLY has 1 sense:
1. in a perplexed manner
Familiarity information: CONFOUNDEDLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a perplexed manner
Synonyms:
confoundedly; perplexedly
Context example:
he looked at his professor perplexedly
Pertainym:
confounded (perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment)
Context examples
But you are so confoundedly hot-headed and exclamatory that I cannot get a word in.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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