mind-bogglingadj.
/ˈmʌɪn(d)ˌbɒɡlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmaɪn(d)ˌbɑɡlɪŋ/ Overwhelming, startling, amazing.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [adjective]
wonderlyc893
wonderfula1100
wondera1175
wondersa1300
marvellousc1330
marvela1400
marvelly?a1400
mirablec1429
admirablec1450
marvellablec1450
mirific1490
wondrous1509
extonious1548
portentious1549
miraculous1569
geason1572
mirificalc1572
astounding1590
amazing1593
wonderedc1595
admiring1598
prodigious1600
astonishable1603
fabulous1609
wondered-at?1611
necromantic1627
stupendous1640
nigromantic1645
mirandous1652
surprising1665
mirabundous1694
astonishinga1704
wondersome1774
sublime1813
nasty1834
kill-me-quite1842
breathtaking1843
breath-catching1865
miracle-working1867
mouth opening1867
stupefying1870
gee whiz1889
scorching1890
doozy1903
sensational1909
eye-popping1918
wunnerful1924
crashing1931
staggering1934
eyewatering1950
mind-boggling1955
Ozymandian1961
knock-out1966
mind-blowing1966
motherfucking1973
boggling1975
gobsmacking1981
tubular1982
1955 E. Fromm Sane Soc. 46 Consumerism in the America of the 1950s constructed a culture of mind-boggling banality and stifling homogeneity.
1964 Punch 19 Feb. 257/1 A lot of mind-boggling statistics.
1973 C. Bonington Next Horizon x. 146 A monstrous bergschrund, a huge, mind-boggling chasm about fifteen feet across.
1980 J. A. Hostetler Amish Society (ed. 3) xiii. 277 The symbols over which they dispute appear to be diverse... The list is mind-boggling.
1997 Art Room Catal. Midsummer 20/1 Escher's mind-bending visual puzzles are all the more mind-boggling when applied to this three-dimensional puzzle.
Derivatives
ˈmind-ˌbogglingly adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [adverb]
wonderlyc897
sellya1000
wonderc1175
wonderfullya1300
marvellouslya1382
marvellousa1400
marvelly?a1400
wonderful14..
wonderslyc1489
to marvelc1500
wondersc1528
wondrously1535
prodigiously1541
wondrous1557
admirably1570
admiredly1598
to a miracle?1614
marls1615
amazingly1650
miridically1652
mirificously1657
surprisingly1661
to wonder1661
astonishingly1668
prodigious1694
strikingly1752
amazing1760
à merveille1762
astoundingly1826
mirifically1873
breathtakingly1887
eye-poppingly1959
mind-bogglingly1973
staggeringly1976
mind-blowingly1977
1973 Times 28 July 18/1 They..plant right at the very bottom..a great bundle of the local speciality—the mind-bogglingly erotic magazines for which Denmark is justly famous.
1990 Times 29 Oct. 2/1 The extraordinary thing about chaos is that you can get some mind-bogglingly complex behaviour from simple equations.
2000 Independent 13 Mar. (Monday Review section) 1/4 She was put in an isolation unit at Sydenham Hospital, in south-east London, a mind-bogglingly awful place.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1955