All mind-bending synonyms
mind-bendΒ·ing
M m adj mind-bending
- affecting β If you describe something such as a story or a piece of music as affecting, you think it is good because it makes you feel a strong emotion, especially sadness or pity.
- stunning β causing, capable of causing, or liable to cause astonishment, bewilderment, or a loss of consciousness or strength: a stunning blow.
- inspiring β to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence: His courage inspired his followers.
- persuasive β able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
- gripping β holding the attention or interest intensely; fascinating; enthralling: a gripping play; a gripping book.
- meaningful β full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
- poignant β keenly distressing to the feelings: poignant regret.
- heartbreaking β causing intense anguish or sorrow.
- touching β affecting; moving; pathetic: a touching scene of farewell.
- heartrending β causing or expressing intense grief, anguish, or distress.
- stirring β rousing, exciting, or thrilling: a stirring speech.
- inspirational β imparting inspiration.
- mystifying β to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
- puzzling β confusing or baffling: a puzzling answer.
- baffling β impossible to understand; perplexing; bewildering; puzzling
- thorny β abounding in or characterized by thorns; spiny; prickly.
- complicated β If you say that something is complicated, you mean it has so many parts or aspects that it is difficult to understand or deal with.
- convoluted β If you describe a sentence, idea, or system as convoluted, you mean that it is complicated and difficult to understand.
- mysterious β full of, characterized by, or involving mystery: a mysterious occurrence.
- knotty β having knots; full of knots: a knotty piece of wood.
- worrying β to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
- confusing β Something that is confusing makes it difficult for people to know exactly what is happening or what to do.
- disconcerting β disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
- hallucinatory β pertaining to or characterized by hallucination: hallucinatory visions.
- kaleidoscopic β of, relating to, or created by a kaleidoscope.
- multicolored β of several or many colors.
- sensational β producing or designed to produce a startling effect, strong reaction, intense interest, etc., especially by exaggerated, superficial, or lurid elements: a sensational novel.
- breathtaking β If you say that something is breathtaking, you are emphasizing that it is extremely beautiful or amazing.
- riveting β a metal pin for passing through holes in two or more plates or pieces to hold them together, usually made with a head at one end, the other end being hammered into a head after insertion.
- hair-raising β terrifying or horrifying: We had a hair-raising brush with death.
- miraculous β performed by or involving a supernatural power or agency: a miraculous cure.
- frantic β desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
- rousing β exciting; stirring: a rousing song.
- quickening β to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
- awakening β the start of a feeling or awareness in a person
- provoking β serving to provoke; causing annoyance.
- stimulating β to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- arousing β causing sexual excitement
- impelling β to drive or urge forward; press on; incite or constrain to action.
- rallying β the sport of driving in automobile rallies.
- propelling β to drive, or cause to move, forward or onward: to propel a boat by rowing.
- involved β very intricate or complex: an involved reply.
- taxing β wearingly burdensome: the day-to-day, taxing duties of a supervisor.
- boss β Your boss is the person in charge of the organization or department where you work.
- overwhelming β that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
- shivering β to shake or tremble with cold, fear, excitement, etc.
- swinging β Also called Big Band music, swing music. a style of jazz, popular especially in the 1930s and often arranged for a large dance band, marked by a smoother beat and more flowing phrasing than Dixieland and having less complex harmonies and rhythms than modern jazz.
- trembling β to shake involuntarily with quick, short movements, as from fear, excitement, weakness, or cold; quake; quiver.
- affective β relating to affects
- breathless β If you are breathless, you have difficulty in breathing properly, for example because you have been running or because you are afraid or excited.