adj
confounded
kuhn-FOWN-dihd
adj
1
Completely puzzled or astonished.
"He stood there looking utterly confounded by the question."
2
Old-fashioned, mild intensifier used to show annoyance, similar to "darn" or "blasted".
""Where's my confounded phone gone now?" he muttered."
How to Use Confounded
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishBaffled — or, in old-fashioned speech, a polite swear word meaning "annoying".
When to use it
The "darn/blasted" sense sounds dated or deliberately old-fashioned in modern English.
Word Forms
more confounded comparative, most confounded superlative
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