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Synonyms and Antonyms of confounding
- we were confounded by the player's remote control, which wasn't at all user-friendly
sticking, stumping, weirding out
abashing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discountenancing, embarrassing, fazing, flustering, mortifying, nonplussing (also nonplusing), rattling
agitating, bothering, chagrining, discomforting, discomposing, dismaying, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, stunning, unhinging, unsettling, upsetting
beguiling, cozening, deceiving, deluding, duping, fooling, gulling, hoaxing, hoodwinking, humbugging, misguiding, misleading, snowing, stringing along, taking in, tricking
- his renewed popularity has confounded the critics who said his singing career was dead
- I think you've confounded astrology with astronomy
- new discoveries that confound much of what archaeologists thought they knew about the Mayan civilization
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