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confoundment

confoundment noun: the state of being confounded.

Noun

confoundment (countable and uncountable, plural confoundments)

  1. (uncountable) The state of being confounded.
    • Peter stood on the bow in the powerful headwinds gazing that way with an inexpressible sense of amazement and expectation, full of confoundment that in that direction, to which they slowly pushed, there could be no warm light and comfort and no friend, only the North, the far White North as...1950, Jack Kerouac, chapter 3, in The Town & the City (A Harvest Book), New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., →ISBN, section 10, pages 302–303
  2. (countable) Something which is or has been confounded.

Synonyms of confoundment

Forms of confoundment

pluralconfoundments

Origin of confoundment

From confound + -ment.

Questions about confoundment

What does confoundment mean?
Confoundment means the state of being confounded.
What part of speech is confoundment?
Confoundment is a noun.
What is the plural of confoundment?
The plural of confoundment is confoundments.

Words near confoundment in the dictionary

  1. confounding
  2. confounding variable
  3. confounding variables
  4. confoundingly
  5. confoundings
  6. confoundment
  7. confoundments
  8. confounds
  9. confraternal
  10. confraternities
  11. confraternity

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