adjective
- confused and surprised
- used to express annoyance
Usage: informal
verb
- past tense of confound: to cause surprise or confusion
Examples
- She looked confounded by the unexpected question.
- The magician’s trick left the audience completely confounded.
- That confounded machine won’t work properly.
- I’m confounded by this math problem.
- The detective was confounded by the lack of evidence.
- The results confounded all our expectations.
- His strange behavior confounded his friends.