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

Other Words From

• mind-boggling·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of mind-boggling¹

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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