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View synonyms for mind-boggling

mind-boggling

[ mahynd-bog-ling ]

adjective

, Slang.
  1. intellectually overwhelming:

    a mind-boggling puzzle.

  2. emotionally or psychologically overwhelming; mind-blowing.


mind-boggling

adjective

  1. informal.
    astonishing; bewildering


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Other Words From

  • mind-boggling·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of mind-boggling1

First recorded in 1960–65

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Example Sentences

When you talk about midtown Manhattan as being a commercial backwater, I find it mind boggling.

Science allows for the unlikely, the extremely rare, the mind-boggling—but it does not allow for the impossible.

The forests, with their mind-boggling biodiversity, are a staggering 10,000 times older than those of North America and Europe.

The notion of “good bacteria” is now familiar, as is the mind-boggling variety of different bacteria we have in and on us.

Seaman's mind-boggling dereliction of responsibility harms the state whose interests he was, and is, tasked with protecting.

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