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bogglingly en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English boggling Middle English -ly English -ly English bogglingly From boggling + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a stupefying manner or to a stupefying degree.
   • 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. 1992, Oliver Stone, Zachary Sklar, JFK: The Book of the Film, published 2006, →ISBN, page 220:
2. While boggling; with an amazed expression.
   • 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. 1863 December 26, “Court-Martial”, in All The Year Round, page 422:

Forms

Relateds

mind-bogglingly

Synonyms

stupefyingly (stupefying manner or degree) · astoundingly (stupefying manner or degree) · mind-bogglingly (stupefying manner or degree)