confounded

adjective3

1. •
   Confused, astonished.

   • The media is very confounded right now. They're very confused. They don't know whether to trash themselves, trash their colleagues, or what. — 2017
2. •
   (informal) Extremely bad; very unpleasant; used as an intensifier.

   • The confounded thing doesn't work.
3. •
   Defeated, thwarted.

   • Nine times the Space that measures Day and Night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquisht, rowling in the fiery Gulfe Confounded though immortal: […] — 1674