Blooming

Pronunciation

Verb

1. Present participle of bloom

Full definition of blooming

Adjective

1. Opening in blossoms; flowering.
2. Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor, vigour; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.
3. (British, euphemistic) bloody (in its vulgar senses).

Synonyms

• (opening in blossoms): blossoming, flowering, in bloom, in blossom, in flower
• (thriving in health, beauty and vigor/vigour): blossoming, flourishing, thriving
• (euphemism for "bloody"): bally British, blasted, blinking

Adverb

1. (euphemistic, often followed by well) Bloody; bleeding; extremely.
   My train's late again. Blooming typical.
• 1935, George Goodchild, Death on the Centre Court Chapter 3, It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. …”

Noun

1. The act by which something blooms.
• 2007, July 23, Jeremy Pearce, Anne McLaren, 80, Expert on the Embryo, Is Dead, Such bloomings, Dr. McLaren continued, would require a critical audience, “so that they can be subject to scientific and ethical review, freely available for research and one day, perhaps, for treating diseases.”
2. (metallurgy) The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
3. (photography) A phenomenon where excessive light causes bright patches in a picture.

Related terms

• antiblooming
• bloomery — forge