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head-spinning en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) Incredible, overwhelming.
    • Across the country, Democratic voters who have been reeling from Mr. Trump’s sweeping and possibly illegal cuts to government, his head-spinning policy moves, and his politicization of federal law enforcement are growing more and more incensed at their own party’s seemingly feckless response. 2025 March 20, Cameron Joseph, “Panicked Democratic voters are turning on their own leaders”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
    • It’s all very headspinning, and there is real Yellow Submarine quality to the film’s innocent urgency and idealism which take it to the very brink of incoherence. 2020 October 13, Peter Bradshaw, “Soul review – Pixar's rapturous tale of a jazz nut on a surreal out-of-body journey”, in The Guardian:

Forms

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most head-spinning Degree=Sup lexicographic
more head-spinning Degree=Cmp lexicographic
headspinning alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

head-spinningly