Synonyms of boggling

boggling

verb

present participle of boggle

as in blowing

to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way

I boggled my first effort to make homemade pasta

Synonyms & Similar Words

• blowing
• fumbling
• ruining
• murdering
• bungling
• spoiling
• destroying
• mangling
• dubbing
• butchering
• botching
• bumbling
• fluffing
• damaging
• screwing up
• bobbling
• wrecking
• foozling
• booting
• messing (up)
• goofing (up)
• flubbing
• muddling
• buggering (up)
• fouling up
• blundering
• mucking up
• muffing
• bollixing (up)
• impairing
• hurting
• marring
• lousing up
• injuring
• mutilating
• piffling
• harming
• gumming (up)
• blighting
• vitiating
• flawing
• mismanaging
• mishandling
• blemishing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• improving
• helping
• enhancing
• bettering
• refining
• ameliorating
• reforming
• rectifying
• remedying
• meliorating
• fixing
• repairing
• reconditioning
• revamping
• renovating
• patching
• doctoring

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of boggling

The audience is relieved of the prior editions’ boggling tsunami wall of zombies. — Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 17 May 2026

Advertisement All eyes will be on Ilia Malinin, for the stunning array of quadruple jumps that the Virginia native pulls off with a mind boggling ease. — Alice Park, Time, 12 Jan. 2026

Jerry's approach is so mind boggling. — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025

The terrific film reel producer Jennifer Fox and her team put together was mind boggling to be sure and really showed the remarkable breadth of Cruise’s talent. — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 17 Nov. 2025

The tragedy side of things is addressed rather offhandedly — occasionally the movie will remember the boggling grief and betrayal at its center, only to shrug it off again just as quickly. — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025

Trying to move in earlier to accommodate a pittance of an audience is mind boggling stupidity. — Pol Ballus, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025

In a world where licenses and software locks forbid folks from simply plugging in a replacement component, the thought of a major company encouraging its customers to break out a soldering iron is mind boggling. — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 27 June 2025