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mind-boggling Definition

mind·-boggling (mīndbäg′liŋ)

adjective

  1. hard to comprehend; confusing
  2. surprising, shocking, overwhelming, etc.

mind-boggling Usage Examples

Infinitive complement

  • think: However when we consider what Scripture has to say about this important event it is mind-boggling to think how it has been overlooked.
  • imagine: I also found it mind-boggling to imagine just a few word, uttered and then long forgotten, could have been such help.

Modifies a noun

  • array: Women's shoes come in a mind-boggling array of styles that have gone through innumerable makeovers throughout the years.
  • charge: Have been possible our business needs mind-boggling charges of it does take.
  • range: Children will soon be busily composing their Christmas essentials with the mind-boggling range of wizarding merchandise littering their wish lists.
  • number: Like MySpace, Bebo's mind-boggling visitor numbers point to a price tag of hundreds of millions, probably billions.
  • complexity: The reasons for such mind-boggling complexity need not be rehearsed here.
  • fact: A combination of high quality photography, inspiring copy and mind-boggling facts and figures will engage every reader.

Modifying Another Word

  • truly: The huge range of animals at the zoo is truly mind-boggling!
  • absolutely: The different departments, the whole bureaucracy, it was absolutely mind-boggling.
  • so: The bewildering choice of prospective partners is so mind-boggling that too often they never make a choice at all.
  • quite: Jeffrey Smith's exposé is thorough and the cynicism and lies he lays bare are quite mind-boggling.
  • somewhat: The ramifications of the letter are somewhat mind-boggling -- as was the article in EGG No.7 to which it refers.
  • too: In an irony almost too mind-boggling to enjoy, is it possible that the Guardian just helped George Bush get re-elected?

Used with adjective complement

  • seem: Initially the task seemed mind-boggling, how to sensibly integrate such a wealth of disparate material.
  • watch: Choose sitting on that chair, watching mind-boggling, bone-crunching fights, stuffing ****ing humble pie into your opponents mouth.

Browse dictionary entries near mind-boggling

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