Bogglingly
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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."
- 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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From boggling + -ly.
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