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headspinning

headspinning is the alternative form of head-spinning.

Meaning of head-spinning

Adjective

head-spinning (comparative more head-spinning, superlative most head-spinning)

  1. (idiomatic) Incredible, overwhelming.
    • 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 of headspinning

comparativemore headspinning
superlativemost headspinning

Questions about headspinning

What is headspinning the alternative form of?
Headspinning is the alternative form of head-spinning.

Words near headspinning in the dictionary

  1. headspaces
  2. headspacing
  3. headspan
  4. headspans
  5. headspin
  6. headspinning
  7. headspinningly
  8. headspins
  9. headsprang
  10. headspring
  11. headspringing

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