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Definition of Mind-blowing
1. Adjective. Intensely affecting the mind especially in producing hallucinations.
2. Adjective. Intensely affecting the mind or emotions. "A mind-blowing horror story"
Definition of Mind-blowing
1. Adjective. hallucinogenic ¹
2. Adjective. having an overwhelming affect on the imagination; mind-boggling ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mind-blowing
Literary usage of Mind-blowing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Figuring It Out by Nicole Bautista (2006)
"I'd want to see what it's like, and to see if it would be mind-blowing.
Anything mind- blowing I would be all for, because I ache to have my mind blown. ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"Evidently in uncomfortable frame of mind, blowing his nose inconsequentially,
and muttering to himself. Could catch now and then the phrase "anonymous ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1896)
"He did not mind blowing, but he was “afeared of the woman,” and sobs again followed
the confession. “Tell me at once, tim, who the woman is and why she ..."
4. An Arabic-English Lexicon: Derived from the Best and the Most Copious by Edward William Lane (1893)
"... I The mind, blowing in cross directions, obliterated the traces of the place
where persons had alighted, (S, K,) [by covering it with dust or sand in ..."
5. My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World by Julian Dibbell (1998)
"And it's a whole other mind-blowing trip altogether to encounter it thus as a
college frosh, new to the Net and still in the grip of hormonal hurricanes and ..."
6. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1884)
"... And blowing a lazy cloud below ; With a light alpaca coat on my back, And
nothing particular on my mind ; Blowing a cloud from my meerschaum black, ..."
7. The Fairy Mythology: Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various by Thomas Keightley (1905)
"Of joy, so brightly flowing, Keep each fair thought in fragrance still But ever
a perennial rill Within thy pure mind blowing. For life all charm had lost ..."
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