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bogglingly

bogglingly adverb: in a stupefying manner or to a stupefying degree.

Adverb

bogglingly (comparative more bogglingly, superlative most bogglingly)

  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

Synonyms of bogglingly

Forms of bogglingly

comparativemore bogglingly
superlativemost bogglingly

Origin of bogglingly

From boggling + -ly.

Questions about bogglingly

What does bogglingly mean?
Bogglingly means in a stupefying manner or to a stupefying degree.
What part of speech is bogglingly?
Bogglingly is an adverb.

Words near bogglingly in the dictionary

  1. boggler
  2. bogglers
  3. boggles
  4. bogglesome
  5. boggling
  6. bogglingly
  7. bogglings
  8. bogglish
  9. boggo
  10. Boggs
  11. Boggsian

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