mind-blowing
Americanadjective
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overwhelming; astounding.
Spending a week in the jungle was a mind-blowing experience.
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producing a hallucinogenic effect.
a mind-blowing drug.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of mind-blowing
First recorded in 1965–70
Vocabulary lists containing mind-blowing
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Example Sentences
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It’s mind-blowing that you wrote the songs on “Trixies,” about this fictional nightclub, when you were teenagers in 1974, within a year of meeting each other.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
The former popstar admitted in a Netflix documentary that the company had once been "tens of millions into the red", with "mind-blowing" waste including a flower budget of £70,000 a year.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
"It's quite mind-blowing that all of this happened autonomously!"
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
“It is kind of mind-blowing to see Cisco and Intel at the top of the charts. Those two stocks just recently took out their year 2000 highs,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● May 15, 2026
“Isn’t it mind-blowing, the engineering behind something as grand as this entryway? It never ceases to amaze me, but particularly on beautiful days like this,” Mr. Keller says.
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
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