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confounded

/kənˈfaʊndɪd/

confoundedadjective

more confounded

Comp.

most confounded

Super.

/kənˈfaʊndɪd/

Translations

déconcerté

She was confounded by the sudden change in his behavior.

Elle était déconcertée par le changement soudain de son comportement.

fichuFamilier ; renforce l’agacement ou l’irritation.

I can't find the confounded keys anywhere!

Je ne trouve pas les fichues clés partout !

Definitions

Confused or perplexed by something unexpected or difficult to understand.

She was confounded by the sudden change in his behavior.

Used for emphasis, especially to express anger or annoyance.

I can't find the confounded keys anywhere!

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Antonyms

confoundedinterjection

/kənˈfaʊndɪd/

Used as an expletive expressing annoyance or frustration

Translations

sapristiInterjection vieillie ou familière exprimant l’agacement ou la surprise.

Confounded! The engine has stalled again.

Sapristi ! Le moteur a encore calé.

Definitions

Used to express annoyance, frustration, or surprise.

Confounded! The engine has stalled again.

confoundverb

confounded

Past Simple

confounded

Past Simple

confounded

Past Participle

confounding

ing-form

/kənˈfaʊnd/

Translations

déconcerter

The magician's tricks confound the audience every time.

Les tours du magicien déconcentrent le public à chaque fois.

confondre

Do not confound correlation with causation.

Il ne faut pas confondre corrélation et causalité.

démentirEn parlant d’une théorie, d’une attente ou d’une prévision.

The scientist's new findings confound the previous hypothesis.

Les nouvelles découvertes du scientifique démentent l’hypothèse précédente.

Additional translations

ruinerSens archaïque.

Definitions

To cause surprise or confusion in someone, especially by acting against their expectations.

The magician's tricks confound the audience every time.

To confuse or mix up (a person, thing, or idea) with another; to fail to distinguish correctly between two things.

Do not confound correlation with causation.

To prove a theory, expectation, or prediction wrong.

The scientist's new findings confound the previous hypothesis.

Archaic: To defeat, overthrow, or bring to ruin (plans, hopes, or an enemy); to thwart.

May their evil schemes be confounded before they come to fruition.

Synonyms

confoundnoun

Definitions

An extraneous factor that obscures or distorts the causal relationship between variables in an experiment or study.

Failure to control for temperature was a major confound in the results.

confoundinterjection

Definitions

Used as a mild exclamation to express annoyance, anger, or surprise.

Confound! I left my wallet at home.

confoundadjective

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Serving as a confounding factor; likely to distort or obscure interpretation (especially in statistics/experimental design).

Age was treated as a confound variable in the regression model.