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confounding
[kon-foun-ding, kuhn-]
adjective
perplexing or bewildering.
He’s hosting an evening of readings from some of the most sensational and confounding cases of Sherlock Holmes.
throwing someone or something into confusion or disorder.
Still in shock, his wife broke the confounding news that their only son had been killed by a stray bullet.
Statistics.interacting with both the dependent and independent variables in an experiment or study, making it impossible to determine a causal effect between them.
The authors list potential confounding factors, but it is not clear from the paper whether all of these were controlled for in the analyses.
noun
the act of perplexing, bewildering, causing confusion or disorder, etc..
The Jaredite civilization is supposed to have formed in the wake of the miraculous confounding of languages at the Tower of Babel.
the act of treating or viewing different things as if they were the same.
I have always found the confounding of Christmas and Hanukkah disturbing.
Other Word Forms
- confoundingly adverb
- unconfounding adjective
- unconfoundingly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of confounding1
Example Sentences
Their reality is that the Earth is collapsing, even as every surface is suddenly covered with confounding billboards and commercials thanking whoever some Chuck is for “39 great years.”
It was confounding to him that a filmmaker could take his life as the raw material for their own work.
One of the latest and most confounding of Trump’s plans is an addendum to his crippling tariffs.
Bryant and other bear advocates found the release of such a significant finding so long after the fact confounding.
To welcome the appellation of "b***h" is confounding on the face of it, since it was by and large recognized as a profane term of abuse.
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