bogglingly
English
Etymology
boggling + -ly
Adverb
bogglingly (comparative more bogglingly, superlative most bogglingly)
- In a stupefying manner or to a stupefying degree
- 1992, Oliver Stone & Zachary Sklar, JFK: The Book of the Film, 2006 ed. edition, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, page 218:
- It was bogglingly complex, with 212 speaking parts, more than 1000 camera setups, 95 scenes, 15 separate film stocks, and endless intercuts and flashbacks -- "everything but footnotes," Stone joked.
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- While boggling
- 1863, December 26, Court-Martial, page 422:
- The prisoner rises with a bit of paper in his hand, and slowly and bogglingly reads from it what has been written down for him to say, and what is delivered thus, reads to the public in the newspaper report like shrewd spontaneous suggestions.
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Synonyms
- (stupefying manner or degree): mind-bogglingly, stupefyingly, astoundingly
Related terms
- mind-bogglingly