mind-boggling

adjective

mind-bog·​gling ˈmīn(d)-ˌbä-g(ə-)liŋ How to pronounce mind-boggling (audio)
: mentally or emotionally exciting or overwhelming
mind-bogglingly adverb

Examples of mind-boggling in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Making its Southern debut in the late mid-1800s, the Indica stunned onlookers with its statuesque size and mind-boggling blossoms of red, pink, white, purple, and salmon, and the azalea quickly became a staple of every Southern garden. Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2024 Like the family’s own private boutique hotel, the home spans 27,000 square feet with 12 bedrooms and a mind-boggling 25 bathrooms. Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2024 People in New Hampshire are the most desperate to live the millionaire lifestyle, willing to give up a mind-boggling 7 years and 11 months. Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 21 Feb. 2024 Over the next week (Jan. 26-Feb. 1), that number exploded by a mind-boggling 4,319% to 2.23 million on-demand streams. Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 14 Feb. 2024 But then bitcoin soared a mind-boggling 307% in 2020 and 155% in 2023. Larry Light, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024 This concept requires mind-boggling precision: the spacecraft must be ultra-stable, ensuring only the movement of spacetime affects the test masses, to measure ripples of only a few billionths of a millimeter. Popular Science, 7 Feb. 2024 But what’s unexpected is the mind-boggling precision and craftsmanship—those tenets of traditional watchmaking—that were pulled out to recreate this historic timepiece. Ming Liu, Robb Report, 6 Feb. 2024 By late afternoon on Monday, multimillion-dollar homes, buttressed by powerful retaining walls and ringed with security hedges, had been drenched with a mind-boggling 11.68 inches of rain, according to the Weather Service. Corina Knoll, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1955, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of mind-boggling was in 1955

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“Mind-boggling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mind-boggling. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

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