confounded
English
Adjective
confounded (comparative more confounded, superlative most confounded)
- confused, astonished
- defeated, thwarted
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 50–3:
- Nine times the Space that measures Day and Night
- To mortal men, he with his horrid crew
- Lay vanquisht, rowling in the fiery Gulfe
- Confounded though immortal: […]
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- damned, accursed, bloody
- The confounded thing doesn't work.
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References
- “confounded” (US) / “confounded” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.
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