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When I first met my husband, he had a very good job - company car, pension plan, grudging respect from his staff - the lot. I, on the other hand, was badly paid and devoid of ambition. Then I had a couple of books published and confounded all expectations by starting to earn more than he did.
Marian Keyes

Meaning of "confounded" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CONFOUNDED

confounded  [kənˈfaʊndɪd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONFOUNDED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Confounded is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CONFOUNDED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of confounded in the English dictionary

The definition of confounded in the dictionary is bewildered; confused. Other definition of confounded is execrable; damned.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CONFOUNDED


astounded
əˈstaʊndɪd
blended
ˈblɛndɪd
bounded
ˈbaʊndɪd
branded
ˈbrændɪd
dumbfounded
dʌmˈfaʊndɪd
expanded
ɪkˈspændɪd
extended
ɪkˈstɛndɪd
grounded
ˈɡraʊndɪd
intended
ɪnˈtɛndɪd
landed
ˈlændɪd
minded
ˈmaɪndɪd
recommended
ˌrɛkəˈmɛndɪd
rounded
ˈraʊndɪd
splendid
ˈsplɛndɪd
unbounded
ʌnˈbaʊndɪd
uncompounded
ˌʌnkəmˈpaʊndɪd
unconfounded
ˌʌnkənˈfaʊndɪd
unfounded
ʌnˈfaʊndɪd
unrounded
ʌnˈraʊndɪd
unsounded
ʌnˈsaʊndɪd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONFOUNDED

conformability
conformable
conformableness
conformably
conformal
conformance
conformation
conformational
conformational analysis
conformer
conformingly
conformism
conformist
conformities
conformity
confound
confoundable
confoundedly
confounder
confoundingly

WORDS THAT END LIKE CONFOUNDED

bonded
descended
ill-founded
left-handed
like-minded
nonfunded
offended
open-ended
open-minded
pretended
stranded
unbranded
underfunded
unfunded
unintended
unwounded
war-wounded
well-founded
well-grounded
well-rounded

Synonyms and antonyms of confounded in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «CONFOUNDED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «confounded» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of confounded

Translation of «confounded» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONFOUNDED

Find out the translation of confounded to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of confounded from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «confounded» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

混淆
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

confundido
570 millions of speakers

English

confounded
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

चकित
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مرتبك
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

посрамлены
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

confundidos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কিংকর্তব্যবিমূঢ়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

confondu
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dimalukan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

verdammt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

混乱
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

혼동
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bingung
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

xấu hổ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குழப்பத்தில் ஆழ்த்தியது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गोंधळलेले
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

şaşırmış
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

confuso
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zadziwiła
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

осоромлені
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

confounded
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συγχέονται
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

beskaamd
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skam
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

forbasket
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of confounded

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONFOUNDED»

The term «confounded» is quite widely used and occupies the 50.588 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CONFOUNDED» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about confounded

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9 QUOTES WITH «CONFOUNDED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word confounded.
1
Giraldus Cambrensis
Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.
2
Roger Caras
I am as confounded by dogs as I am indebted to them.
3
Helena Bonham Carter
You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.
4
Deborah Kerr
All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal.
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Marian Keyes
When I first met my husband, he had a very good job - company car, pension plan, grudging respect from his staff - the lot. I, on the other hand, was badly paid and devoid of ambition. Then I had a couple of books published and confounded all expectations by starting to earn more than he did.
6
Zoe Lister-Jones
In my view, relationship movies never get old because humanity will never not be confounded by their relationships.
7
George Muller
They that trust in the Lord shall never be confounded!
8
Luigi Pirandello
Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.
9
Mark Warner
Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONFOUNDED»

Discover the use of confounded in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to confounded and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Confounded Nuisance
In addition to writing, she is in a 27 member accordion band, plays the piano, participates in square dancing and spends time with her friends and family. A sequel to A Confounded Nuisance is in the works.
Dell Craig, 2009
2
Cowboy Sam and Those Confounded Secrets
Having stored the secrets of all his friends of Dry Gulch in his very special hat, Cowboy Sam gets worried when it gets to the point of bursting as he fears that its explosion of information may cause complete havoc in his quiet town.
Kitty Griffin, Kathy Combs, 2001
3
Confounded Expectations: The Law's Struggle with Personal ...
Each chapter of Confounded Expectations features one main case to explain one legal theory, with other cases noted as examples of facets of each theory.
George W. Jarecke, Nancy K. Plant, 2000
4
Fermat's last theorem: the story of a riddle that confounded ...
The extraordinary story of the solving of a puzzle that has confounded matheticians since the 17th century, the solution of Fermat`s Last Theorem is the most important mathematical development of the 20th century.
Simon Singh, 2007
5
Is Israel One?: Religion, Nationalism, and Multiculturalism ...
This book delves into Israeli society—an emblematic example of multiculturalism—where internal divides emerge from value systems relating contrastingly to religion, in a context of globalization, immigrant–society behavior, and a deep ...
Eliezer Ben Rafael, Yoḥanan Peres, 2005
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Causal Not Confounded Gene Networks: Inferring Acyclic and ...
Estimates of the specificity of the algorithm are made through small sample simulation, and an illustrative network is learned from mouse microarray data that implicates particular liver genes in the Apoe null mouse model of diet-induced ...
Jason Erik Aten, 2008
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Medical diagnosis
Peritonitis, chronic 487 confounded with ascites 565 local 479 puerperal „ 478 Perityphlitis 490 Phantom tumors 573 Pharyngitis confounded with diphtheria 403 Pharynx and oesophagus, diseases of 409 Phlegmasia dolens 675 confounded ...
Jacob Mendes Da Costa, 1900
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The Design of Experiments: Statistical Principles for ...
confounded. The most obvious candidate for a second confounded effect is one of the three-factor interactions. Suppose it is decided to confound PQR in addition to PQRS. Now PQR is also defined as the difference between even and odd ...
R. Mead, 1990
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Molière's Theatrical Bounty: A New View of the Plays
George. Dandin,. or. The. Confounded. Husband. (George Dandin ou le mari confondu, 1 668) George Dandin is a friendless f1gure who talks out his anguish in six soliloquies, dozens of asides, and the formal second person plural. But he ...
Albert Bermel, 1990
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Modern Epidemiology
If the value substituted for the counterfactual rate or risk does not equal that rate or risk, both the ratio and difference will be confounded. The above definitions also extend immediately to situations in which the contrasted quantities are average ...
Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, Timothy L. Lash, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONFOUNDED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term confounded is used in the context of the following news items.
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EU leaders give Greece a Friday deadline for bailout proposal
Since becoming prime minister, he has confounded observers with a governing style that critics describe as reckless and erratic. «GoErie.com, Jul 15»
2
Fired BC health researcher's suicide note deleted by Coroners …
Kayfish said in her letter she was "speechless and confounded" by the coroner's decision to delete the document due to what it said were ... «Vancouver Sun, Jul 15»
3
No more sand trucks this year for Collier beaches
The shift from offshore dredging to truck hauls to put sand on the beach confounded coastal residents worried the trucks would tie up traffic and ... «Naples Daily News, Jul 15»
4
Elon Musk calls Falcon 9 explosion 'a huge blow to SpaceX'
The SpaceX CEO seemed confounded by the Falcon 9 mishap, and he readily admitted how it's stumped him and his team. "The data does ... «The Verge, Jul 15»
5
Coca-Cola removed can labels in the Middle East for reasons we …
Once the lights are on and everyone expresses shock over their confounded expectations, each participant reaches under his chair and pulls ... «Fusion, Jul 15»
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Edmonton couple trapped by changes to citizenship rules
That rule has so far confounded the couple's efforts to bring their daughter to Canada. Asaad Daoud and his two older daughters are Canadian ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
7
The NEW Pokémon Types That Could Appear in Pokémon Z!
Fans who haven't touched the games since the early days of Red and Blue were confounded to encounter such new types as "Ghost", "Dark", ... «moviepilot.com, Jul 15»
8
7/7 Attacks and the New Type of Terrorism
Consequently, the events confounded us all, leaving security services and policymakers scrambling for answers. However, the only real ... «The National Interest Online, Jul 15»
9
Passenger Mutations Can Skew Results
They found that their interpretation of Casp3's role in septic shock had also been confounded by the Casp11 passenger mutation. “It affected ... «The Scientist, Jul 15»
10
Roof project may not include removal of PCBs
“Now it appears it's not urgent,” Lawson said. “I'm rather confounded by that. But my primary concern is the lack of attention to the PCBs.”. «Danbury News Times, Jul 15»

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