Puzzled vs Confounded - What's the difference?
puzzled | confounded |
Confused or perplexed.
* 1848 , ,
* 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
(puzzle)
As adjectives the difference between puzzled and confounded
is that puzzled is confused or perplexed while confounded is confused; thwarted.As verbs the difference between puzzled and confounded
is that puzzled is (puzzle) while confounded is (confound).puzzled
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Vanity Fair, Bradbury and Sons, 11:
- (...) when the day of the departure came, between her two customs of laughing and crying, Miss Sedley was greatly puzzled how to act.
- Once or twice he scratched his head, and stared out of the window with a puzzled frown. And each time, after a brief survey of the other side of Half Moon Street, he turned back again to the breakfast table with a grin.