Confounded

Definition: Confounded

Confounded

Adjective

1. Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment; "obviously bemused by his questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt lost on the first day of school".

Date "confounded" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Specialty Definition: Confounded

Domain	Definition
Statistics	Two variables are said to be confounded when they are varied simultaneously and their effects cannot be separated. Source: European Union. (references)
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Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disorder	Turmoil; ferment; (agitation); to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business.
Inexpedience	Evil, wrong; depraved; shocking; reprehensible; (disapprove). hateful, hateful as a toad; abominable, detestable, execrable, cursed, accursed, confounded; damned, damnable; infernal; diabolic; (malevolent).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
Books	Confounded Expectations: The Law's Struggle With Personal Responsibility (reference) Confounded Language: Images by Noel Connor (reference) Conundrum: A Cartoon Collection of Concepts, College, and Confounded Connotations (reference) Cowboy Sam and Those Confounded Secrets (reference) Fermat's Last Theorem: The Story of a Riddle That Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years (Pbk) (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
Aristotle	A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
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Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	And here we have the plain difference between the state of nature and the state of war, which however some men have confounded, are as far distant, as a state of peace, good will, mutual assistance and preservation, and a state of enmity, malice, violence and mutual destruction, are one from another. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Jean Valjean, who had no recollection of this promise, stood confounded.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	The Blefuscudians, who had not the least imagination of what I intended, were at first confounded with astonishment
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		This explicitly expressed favoritism for nuclear energy is confounded by the fact that KEPCO is already in debt over its present nuclear generators. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. One evening Mr. Rudolph Block, of New York, found himself seated at dinner alongside Mr. Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic. "Mr. Pollard," said he, "my book, The Biography of a Dead Cow, is published anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship. Yet in reviewing it you speak of it as the work of the Idiot of the Century. Do you think that fair criticism?" "I am very sorry, sir," replied the critic, amiably, "but it did not occur to me that you really might not wish the public to know who wrote it." Mr. W.C. Morrow, who used to live in San Jose, California, was addicted to writing ghost stories which made the reader feel as if a stream of lizards, fresh from the ice, were streaking it up his back and hiding in his hair. San Jose was at that time believed to be haunted by the visible spirit of a noted bandit named Vasquez, who had been hanged there. The town was not very well lighted, and it is putting it mildly to say that San Jose was reluctant to be out o' nights. One particularly dark night two gentlemen were abroad in the loneliest spot within the city limits, talking loudly to keep up their courage, when they came upon Mr. J.J. Owen, a well-known journalist. "Why, Owen," said one, "what brings you here on such a night as this? You told me that this is one of Vasquez' favorite haunts! And you are a believer. Aren't you afraid to be out?" "My dear fellow," the journalist replied with a drear autumnal cadence in his speech, like the moan of a leaf-laden wind, "I am afraid to be in. I have one of Will Morrow's stories in my pocket and I don't dare to go where there is light enough to read it." Rear-Admiral Schley and Representative Charles F. Joy were standing near the Peace Monument, in Washington, discussing the question, Is success a failure? Mr. Joy suddenly broke off in the middle of an eloquent sentence, exclaiming: "Hello! I've heard that band before. Santlemann's, I think." "I don't hear any band," said Schley. "Come to think, I don't either," said Joy; "but I see General Miles coming down the avenue, and that pageant always affects me in the same way as a brass band. One has to scrutinize one's impressions pretty closely, or one will mistake their origin." While the Admiral was digesting this hasty meal of philosophy General Miles passed in review, a spectacle of impressive dignity. When the tail of the seeming procession had passed and the two observers had recovered from the transient blindness caused by its effulgence -- "He seems to be enjoying himself," said the Admiral. "There is nothing," assented Joy, thoughtfully, "that he enjoys one-half so well." The illustrious statesman, Champ Clark, once lived about a mile from the village of Jebigue, in Missouri. One day he rode into town on a favorite mule, and, hitching the beast on the sunny side of a street, in front of a saloon, he went inside in his character of teetotaler, to apprise the barkeeper that wine is a mocker. It was a dreadfully hot day. Pretty soon a neighbor came in and seeing Clark, said: "Champ, it is not right to leave that mule out there in the sun. He'll roast, sure! -- he was smoking as I passed him." "O, he's all right," said Clark, lightly; "he's an inveterate smoker." The neighbor took a lemonade, but shook his head and repeated that it was not right. He was a conspirator. There had been a fire the night before: a stable just around the corner had burned and a number of horses had put on their immortality, among them a young colt, which was roasted to a rich nut-brown. Some of the boys had turned Mr. Clark's mule loose and substituted the mortal part of the colt. Presently another man entered the saloon. "For mercy's sake!" he said, taking it with sugar, "do remove that mule, barkeeper: it smells." "Yes," interposed Clark, "that animal has the best nose in Missouri. But if he doesn't mind, you shouldn't." In the course of human events Mr. Clark went out, and there, apparently, lay the incinerated and shrunken remains of his charger. The boys idd not have any fun out of Mr. Clarke, who looked at the body and, with the non-committal expression to which he owes so much of his political preferment, went away. But walking home late that night he saw his mule standing silent and solemn by the wayside in the misty moonlight. Mentioning the name of Helen Blazes with uncommon emphasis, Mr. Clark took the back track as hard as ever he could hook it, and passed the night in town. General H.H. Wotherspoon, president of the Army War College, has a pet rib-nosed baboon, an animal of uncommon intelligence but imperfectly beautiful. Returning to his apartment one evening, the General was surprised and pained to find Adam (for so the creature is named, the general being a Darwinian) sitting up for him and wearing his master's best uniform coat, epaulettes and all. "You confounded remote ancestor!" thundered the great strategist, "what do you mean by being out of bed after naps? -- and with my coat on!" Adam rose and with a reproachful look got down on all fours in the manner of his kind and, scuffling across the room to a table, returned with a visiting-card: General Barry had called and, judging by an empty champagne bottle and several cigar-stumps, had been hospitably entertained while waiting. The general apologized to his faithful progenitor and retired. The next day he met General Barry, who said: "Spoon, old man, when leaving you last evening I forgot to ask you about those excellent cigars. Where did you get them?" General Wotherspoon did not deign to reply, but walked away. "Pardon me, please," said Barry, moving after him; "I was joking of course. Why, I knew it was not you before I had been in the room fifteen minutes."
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Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	48.67%	55	45,713
Lexical Verb (past tense)	34.51%	39	55,036
Adjective (general or positive)	16.81%	19	80,337
Total	100.00%	113	N/A

Expressions using "confounded": be confounded ♦ confusion worse confounded. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "confounded"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i urryer (cursed, foul, hateful, heinous, horrible, invidious, loathful, loathsome), i mallkuar (accursed, accurst, bloody, cursed, cussed, damning, darn, unblessed). (various references)

Arabic		‏متحير (bewildered, confused, discomfited, distracted, embarrassed, nonplused, perplexed, puzzled), ‏مرتبك (agitated, baffled, bemused, bewildered, confused, discomfited, disconcerted, disquieted, disturbed, embarrassed, lummox, perplexed, perturbed, puzzled, uneasy, upset). (various references)

Chinese		迷惑 (Bewilder, Bewildered, Bewildering, Bewilderingly, Confound, Confounding, Enchant, Enchanted, Enchanting, Mystify, Obfuscation). (various references)

Czech		zatracený (blessed, bloody, blooming, damned, darned, deuced, stupid), prokletý (accursed, accurst, cursed, damnable, execrable, fated, maledictory, plaguy). (various references)

Danish		konfunderet. (various references)

Dutch		verstrengeld. (various references)

Finnish		sulautunut, kirottu (damned). (various references)

French		confondus, confondues, confondu, confondit, confondis. (various references)

German		verwechselte (confused, mistook), verflucht (accursed, bloody, blooming, confoundedly, cursed, curses, cussed, damn, damned, hexes, infernal), verflixt (blessed, blinking, blooming, confoundedly, darn, darned, shucks, tricky), verdammt (accursed, blast, blast it, blasted, bleeding, blinking, bloody, condemns, confoundedly, cursedly, dammit, damn, damn it, damned, darn, deuced, flaming, perishing, pesky, ruddy), heiden- (heathen), elend (abject, awful, calamitous, calamitously, calamitousness, destitution, dismal, distress, dreadful, hardship, meager, miserable, miserably, misery, penury, pitiable, pitiful, plight, poorly, poverty, sick, sordid, sordidness, squalid, squalor, unhappiness, woeful, woefully, woefulness, wretched, wretchedly, wretchedness). (various references)

Greek		καταραμένοσ (accurst, blasted, blessed, cursed, damned, darn), βρωμομπελάσ, βρωμοδιάβολο. (various references)

Hebrew		�"מים (delirious). (various references)

Italian		confuso (abashed, addled, confused, dazed, fuzzy, haywire, hazy, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, indistinct, messy, pell mell, perplexed, promiscuous, shamefaced, upset, woolly, wooly), sconcertato (abashed, baffled, bewildered), maledetto (accursed, accurst, blasted, bloody, cursed, cussed, damned, deuced, devilishly, hexes), indiscernibile (indiscernible). (various references)

Manx		fuilltagh (bloodshot, bloody, gory, sanguinary). (various references)

Norwegian		pokkers (infernal), forbasket. (various references)

Pig Latin		onfoundedcay.(various references)

Romanian		zãpãcit (confused, dawdler, dim, distracted, dizzy, flighty, giddy, hare-brained, headless, light-headed, madcap, muddle-headed, mused, muzzy, off one's dot, perplexedly, rash, reckless, scatterbrain, scatterbrained, scatterbrains, silly, thoughtless, topsy turvy, woolly-headed, wronghead, wrongheaded), blestemat (accursed, cursed, damnable, damned, darn, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, evil-minded, rascally, shabby, terrible, villainous, wicked), ameţit (bewildered, dizzy, flustered, giddy, groggy, inebriate, intoxicated, moony, muzzy, queer, screwed, silly, squiffy, stupid, tipsy, wild), al naibii (cursed, damned, deuced, perishing, precious), afurisit (accursed, bally, blessed, bloody, cursed, cussed, damned, darn, deuced, devilish, rogue, scamp, scoundrel). (various references)

Russian		ставить в тупик/ смешанный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zbunjen (abashed, ablush, aghast, befuddled, bewildered, confused, distraught, embarrassed, loss: at a loss, nonplussed, puzzled, quizzical), proklet (accursed, accurst, blasted, condemned, cursed, cussed, damn, damned, doomed, fey, maledictory, reprobate). (various references)

Spanish		confundido (baffled, bemused, confused, foxed), perplejo (at a loss, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, bushed, leak, perplexed, puzzled). (various references)

Swedish		förbaskad (ballup, blessed, blinking, damn, damnable, damned, darned, deuced, devilish, dratted, flaming, perishing, plaguey, plaguy). (various references)

Turkish		kahrolası (bugger, bugger you, confound him, confound it, cursed, damn it, damn you, damned, flaming, goddamn, goddamned, godforsaken, heck, ruddy, sod it), kafasını karışmış, baş belâsı (a thorn in the flesh, a thorn in the side, annoyance, bother, headache, hellbender, nuisance, old man of the sea, pain in the neck, pestilent, pestilential, stiff, tease, tough, troublemaker, troublesome), şaşırmış (all at sea, all out, amazed, at a loss, baffled, bewildered, blank, confused, disoriented, distracted, lost, perplexed, punch-drunk, puzzled, surprised, taken aback, twisted, wondering). (various references)

Vietnamese		uột ết khuộng chết tiệt. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	confusus, stupidus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Acts Chapter 9, Verse 22
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	SauloV de mallon enedunamouto kai sunecunen touV ioudaiouV touV katoikountaV en damaskw sumbibazwn oti outoV estin o cristoV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Saulus autem magis convalescebat et confundebat Iudaeos qui habitabant Damasci adfirmans quoniam hic est Christus
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	But Saul myche more wexede strong, and confoundide the Jewis that dwelliden at Damask, and affermyde that this is Crist.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	But Saul encreased in stregth and confounded the Iewes which dwelte at Damasco affirminge that this was very Christ.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews who dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	But Saul went on increasing in power, and the Jews in Damascus were not able to give answers to the arguments by which he made it clear that Jesus was the Christ.
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Language	Acts Chapter 9, Verse 22
Albanian	Por Sauli bëhej gjithnjë e më i fortë dhe i hutonte Judenjtë që banonin në Damask, duke ua vërtetuar se Jezusi është Krishti.
Cebuano	Apan si Saulo misamot pa gayud sa pagkabaskog, ug nakapahilum sa mga Judio nga nanagpuyo sa Damasco, pinaagi sa iyang pagpanghimatuod nga si Jesus mao ang Cristo.
Croatian	Savao pak, sve silniji, zbunjivaše Židove koji prebivahu u Damasku dokazujuæi: "Ovo je Krist!"
Danish	Men Saulus voksede i Kraft og gendrev Jøderne, som boede i Damaskus, idet han beviste, at denne er Kristus.
Dutch	Doch Saulus werd meer en meer bekrachtigd, en overtuigde de Joden, die te Damaskus woonden, bewijzende, dat deze de Christus is.
Finnish	Mutta Saulus sai yhä enemmän voimaa ja saattoi Damaskossa asuvat juutalaiset ymmälle näyttäen toteen, että Jeesus on Kristus.
French	Cependant Saul se fortifiait de plus en plus, et il confondait les Juifs qui habitaient Damas, démontrant que Jésus est le Christ.
German	Saulus aber ward immer kräftiger und trieb die Juden in die Enge, die zu Damaskus wohnten, und bewährte es, daß dieser ist der Christus.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Tetapi Saulus makin kuat pengaruhnya. Bukti-bukti yang ia kemukakan mengenai Yesus begitu meyakinkan bahwa Yesus itulah Raja Penyelamat, sampai orang-orang Yahudi yang tinggal di Damsyik tidak dapat lagi membantah.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka Saul pun makin bertambah-tambah kuat tenaganya, dan orang Yahudi yang diam di Damsyik itu pun diharu-birukannya tatkala ia menyatakan bahwa Yesus itulah Kristus.
Latvian	Bet Sauls atspirga arvien vairâk un ienesa sajukumu jûdos, kas dzîvoja Damaskâ, apstiprinâdams, ka Ðis ir Kristus.
Maori	Ko Haora ia ka nui haere ke atu tona kaha, a whakapororarutia ana e ia nga Hurai e noho ana i Ramahiku, i a ia e whakakite ana ko te Karaiti tenei.
Norwegian	Men Saulus blev enn mere styrket, og han målbandt jødene som bodde i Damaskus, idet han beviste at Jesus er Messias.
Portuguese	Saulo, porém, se fortalecia cada vez mais e confundia os judeus que habitavam em Damasco, provando que Jesus era o Cristo.
Rumanian	Totuw Saul se kntqrea din ce kn ce mai mult, wi fqcea de ruwine pe Iudeii, cari locuiau kn Damasc, dovedind cq Isus este Hristosul.
Shuar	Tura Sáurusha sapijmiatsuk etsermiayi. "Ju Jesus nekas aentsun Uwemtikniuiti" tu etsermiayi. Tura ti paant étserkui, Tamaskunmaya Israer-aents, nekaschaiti titiaj Tukamá tujinkiarmiayi.
Spanish	Pero Saulo se fortalecía aun más y confundía a los judíos que habitaban en Damasco, demostrando que Jesús era el Cristo.
Swahili	Saulo alizidi kupata nguvu, na kwa jinsi alivyothibitisha wazi kwamba Yesu ndiye Kristo, Wayahudi wa huko Damasko walivurugika kabisa.
Swedish	Men Saulus uppträdde med allt större kraft och gjorde de judar som bodde i Damaskus svarslösa, i det han bevisade att Jesus var Messias.
Uma	Aga kaboo-bohea baraka' -na Saulus metudui', napakanoto Kayesus-na Magau' Topetolo'. Jadi', to Yahudi hi Damsyik, uma-pi rakulei' mpobaro-i.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "confounded": confoundedly. (additional references)
	Words ending with "confounded": unconfounded. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Confounded" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cofounded. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "confounded" (pronounced kunfou"ndud)
8	-u n f ou" n d u d	unfounded.
6	-f ou" n d u d	founded.
5	-ou" n d u d	abounded, astounded, bounded, compounded, expounded, grounded, hounded, impounded, pounded, propounded, rebounded, rounded, sounded, surrounded, unbounded.
4	-n d u d	amended, appended, apprehended, ascended, attended, backhanded, banded, befriended, bended, blended, blinded, bonded, branded, candid, commanded, commended, comprehended, contended, corresponded, defended, demanded, depended, descended, disbanded, landed, distended, dumbfounded, ended, evenhanded, expanded, expended, extended, fended, funded, handed, intended, masterminded, mended, minded, offended, overextended, overfunded, pretended, recommended, refunded, remanded, reminded, reprimanded, rescinded, responded, sanded, seconded, splendid, stranded, suspended, tended, transcended, trended, unamended, unattended, unbranded, underfunded, underhanded, unfunded, unintended, winded, wounded.
3	-d u d	acceded, accorded, abided, added, afforded, aided, alluded, applauded, avoided, awarded, barricaded, beaded, bearded, bedded, beheaded, bladed, blindfolded, blindsided, blockaded, blooded, boarded, bombarded, braided, breaded, broadsided, brooded, carded, cascaded, ceded, chided, clouded, coded, coincided, collided, colluded, conceded, concluded, confided, corded, corroded, crowded, decided, deeded, defrauded, degraded, deluded, denuded, derided, discarded, intruded, invaded, jaded, kidded, larded, lauded, leaded, lightheaded, loaded, lopsided, disregarded, dissuaded, divided, downgraded, downloaded, dreaded, eluded, embedded, encoded, enshrouded, eroded, evaded, exceeded, excluded, exploded, extruded, exuded, faded, feuded, fielded, flooded, folded, forwarded, gilded, glided, goaded, graded, guarded, guided, hardheaded, headed, heeded, heralded, herded, hoarded, homesteaded, hooded, imbedded, impeded, imploded, included, interceded, melded, misguided, molded, muddleheaded, needed, nodded, outmoded, overcrowded, overloaded, padded, paraded, persuaded, pervaded, pleaded, plodded, preceded, precluded, prerecorded, presided, prided, proceeded, prodded, provided, raided, railroaded, receded, recorded, redheaded, regarded, reloaded, remolded, resided, retarded, rewarded, safeguarded, scalded, scolded, seceded, secluded, seeded, serenaded, shaded, shepherded, shielded, shredded, shrouded, sided, skidded, sordid, spearheaded, speeded, stampeded, studded, subdivided, subsided, succeeded, superseded, threaded, traded, unaided, undecided, undivided, unexploded, unfolded, unguarded, unheeded, unheralded, unimpeded, unleaded, unloaded, unneeded, unrecorded, upbraided, upgraded, voided, wadded, waded, warded, wedded, weeded, welded, wielded, wooded, worded, wrongheaded, yielded.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-d-e-f-n-n-o-o-u"
	-1 letter: cofounded.
	-2 letters: condoned, confound.
	-3 letters: cofound, condone, founded, uncoded.
	-4 letters: conned, defund, donned, dunned, fecund, fonded, fondue, funded, funned, undone, unfond.
	-5 letters: coded, coden, codon, condo, coned, cooed, coude, donne, douce, dunce, fondu, found, nonce, odeon, ounce, unfed.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-d-e-f-n-n-o-o-u"
	+2 letters: confoundedly, unconfounded.
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Confounded

Definition: Confounded

Confounded

Adjective

Specialty Definition: Confounded

Statistics

Synonyms: Confounded

Synonyms within Context: Confounded

Disorder

Inexpedience

Crosswords: Confounded

Modern Usage: Confounded

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Familiar Quotations: Confounded

Aristotle

Historic Usage: Confounded

John Locke

Use in Literature: Confounded

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Non-Fiction Usage: Confounded

Business

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Usage Frequency: Confounded

Expressions: Confounded

Modern Translation: Confounded

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Ancestral Language Translations: Confounded

Bible Trace: Confounded

Matched Bible Translations: Confounded

Derivations & Misspellings: Confounded

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Rhyming with "Confounded"

Anagrams: Confounded

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