confounded

confounded

1. simple past tense and past participle of confound

confounded (comparative more confounded, superlative most confounded)

1. confused, astonished
2. 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: […]

3. damned, accursed, bloody

   The confounded thing doesn't work.

• confoundedly

• “confounded” (US) / “confounded” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.