mind-blowing
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Intensely affecting the mind or emotions: Describes something that has an extremely powerful impact on one's thoughts or feelings, often causing awe, shock, or profound amazement.
- Intensely affecting the mind, especially in producing hallucinations: Describes something that can alter perception or consciousness in an extreme way, often associated with psychedelic drugs or surreal experiences.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- The special effects in that movie were absolutely mind-blowing. (The visual effects were so impressive they caused intense amazement.)
- She had a mind-blowing realization about the nature of the universe. (The realization was so profound it intensely affected her thoughts.)
- The scientist presented mind-blowing data that challenged all previous theories. (The data was so surprising and impactful it shocked the intellectual community.)
Advanced Usage
- Used to describe abstract concepts or information: Often applied to ideas, facts, or theories that are difficult to comprehend due to their scale or implications.
- The concept of quantum entanglement is mind-blowing.
- Used informally for extreme positivity: In casual contexts, it can describe something exceptionally good or enjoyable.
- That concert was mind-blowing!
Variants and Related Words
- Mind-blower (noun, informal): Something that is mind-blowing.
- The final plot twist was a real mind-blower.
- Mind-bending (adjective): Similar to mind-blowing, often emphasizing confusion or perceptual distortion.
- It was a mind-bending puzzle.
Synonyms
- Astonishing: Extremely surprising or amazing.
- Stunning: So impressive or shocking as to cause temporary astonishment.
- Psychedelic: Relating to or denoting drugs that produce hallucinations and apparent expansion of consciousness.
Related Phrases
- Blow someone's mind (idiom, phrasal verb): To amaze or astonish someone profoundly.
- The revelation about his past blew my mind.
- Out of this world (idiom): Used informally to describe something extraordinarily good, often overlapping with 'mind-blowing' in positive contexts.
- The dessert here is out of this world.
Adjective
- intensely affecting the mind or emotions
- spending a week in the jungle was a mind-blowing experience
- a mind-blowing horror story
- intensely affecting the mind especially in producing hallucinations