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confoundments

confoundments is the plural of confoundment.

Meaning of confoundment

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.

Questions about confoundments

What is confoundments the plural of?
Confoundments is the plural of confoundment.

Words near confoundments in the dictionary

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

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