confounded as an adjective: - 1
confounded
adjective
1 confounded
Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment:
— A cloudy and confounded philosopher.
synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up.
Roget 649:
hurtful,
harmful,
scathful†,
baneful,
baleful;
injurious,
deleterious,
detrimental,
noxious,
pernicious,
mischievous,
full of mischief,
mischief-making,
malefic,
malignant,
nocuous,
noisome;
prejudicial;
disserviceable†,
disadvantageous;
wide-wasting.
unlucky,
sinister;
obnoxious;
untoward,
disastrous.
oppressive,
burdensome,
onerous;
malign
etc.
(malevolent)
907.
corrupting
etc.
(corrupt)
etc.
659;
virulent,
venomous,
envenomed,
corrosive;
poisonous
etc.
(morbific)
657†;
deadly
etc.
(killing)
361;
destructive
etc.
(destroying)
162;
inauspicious
etc.
859.
bad,
ill,
arrant,
as bad as bad can be,
dreadful;
horrid,
horrible;
dire;
rank,
peccant,
foul,
fulsome;
rotten,
rotten at the core.
vile,
base,
villainous;
mean
etc.
(paltry)
643;
injured
&c.;
deteriorated
etc.
659;
unsatisfactory,
exceptionable indifferent;
below par
etc.
(imperfect)
651;
illcontrived,
ill-conditioned;
wretched,
sad,
grievous,
deplorable,
lamentable;
pitiful,
pitiable,
woeful
etc.
(painful)
830.
evil,
wrong;
depraved
etc.
945;
shocking;
reprehensible
etc.
(disapprove)
932.
hateful,
hateful as a toad;
abominable,
detestable,
execrable,
cursed,
accursed,
confounded;
damned,
damnable;
infernal;
diabolic
etc.
(malevolent)
907.
unadvisable
etc.
(inexpedient)
647;
unprofitable
etc.
(useless)
645;
incompetent
etc.
(unskillful)
699;
irremediable
etc.
(hopeless)
859.
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Moby thesaurus: Byzantine, absolute, addled, agape, aghast, agog, all agog, all up with, amazed, astonished, astounded, at a loss, at gaze, awed, awestruck, baffled, balled up, bamboozled, beat, beaten, beguiled, belied, bested, bewildered, bewitched, blamed, blankety-blank, blasted, blessed, breathless, buffaloed, captivated, complex, complicated, confused, confuted, convoluted, crabbed, cursed, cussed, dadburned, daedal, danged, darned, dashed, dazed, defeated, deflated, denied, deuced, devious, discarded, discomfited, discredited, dismayed, dismissed, disproved, disputed, doggone, doggoned, done for, done in, down, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, elaborate, embrangled, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, entangled, enthralled, entranced, execrable, exploded, exposed, fallen, fascinated, fixed, flabbergasted, floored, fouled up, fuddled, gaping, gauping, goldarned, goshdarn, gross, hors de combat, hypnotized, implicated, impugned, in a dilemma, in awe, in awe of, in suspense, infernal, intricate, invalidated, involuted, involved, knotted, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, lambasted, lathered, licked, lost in wonder, loused up, many-faceted, marveling, matted, mazy, meandering, mesmerized, messed up, mixed up, mucked up, muddled, multifarious, mystified, negated, negatived, nonplussed, on tenterhooks, on the skids, open-eyed, openmouthed, out-and-out, outdone, outright, overborne, overcome, overmastered, overmatched, overpowered, overridden, overthrown, overturned, overwhelmed, panicked, perplexed, popeyed, punctured, put to rout, puzzled, ramified, rank, rapt in wonder, refuted, rejected, roundabout, routed, ruddy, ruined, scattered, screwed up, settled, shocked, shown up, silenced, skinned, skinned alive, snarled, spellbound, staggered, stampeded, staring, straight-out, stuck, stumped, stupefied, subtle, surprised, tangled, tangly, thrown, thunderstruck, trimmed, trounced, twisted, under a charm, undone, unmitigated, upset, whelmed, whipped, wide-eyed, wonder-struck, wondering, worsted ... show more.
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