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confounding::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | contradictory |
Examples of confounding
confounding
Typical of their season, that streak brings an interesting and confounding note.
From the thenewstribune.com
The Germans, Gott bless them, are especially skilled at confounding phraseology.
From the courier-journal.com
Cultural trends have a habit of confounding the neatness of temporal boundaries.
From the independent.co.uk
The place was confounding on so many levels that I knew I had to write about it.
From the nytimes.com
Some musicians are bound to respond by confounding expectations with new sounds.
From the economist.com
The incredibly confounding Super Bowl ads that absolutely no one seemed to like.
From the techcrunch.com
Districts'reasons for not playing are as confounding as their lack of interest.
From the thenewstribune.com
Then again, who knows how this confounding team will perform in the postseason?
From the dallasnews.com
But he's been persuading people and confounding his critics for much of his life.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
- Confuse: be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher"
- Confuse: mistake one thing for another; "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary"
- (confounded) baffled: perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment; "obviously bemused by his questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt lost on the first day of school"
- In statistics, a confounding variable (also confounding factor, lurking variable, a confound, or confounder) is an extraneous variable in a statistical model that correlates (positively or negatively) with both the dependent variable and the independent variable. ...
- To confuse; to mix up; to puzzle; To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong; To make something worse; To cause to be ashamed; to abash; To defeat; To damn; To frustrate, to thwart; To bring to ruination
- (confounded) Confused; thwarted
- (Confounded) The situation in which the effect of a controlled variable is inextricably mixed with that of another, uncontrolled variable. ...
- An extraneous variable that may influence the results of an experiment.
- In experimental research, a situation where two variables change simultaneously, making it impossible to determine their relative influence.
