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blooming

  • adjective
  • /ˈbluː.mɪŋ/

Opening in blossoms; flowering.

Other meanings

  1. Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor, vigour; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.

  2. A euphemism for the intensifier bloody.

Synonyms

  • flowering
  • in bloom
  • in blossom
  • in flower
  • blossom
  • thrive
  • blinking
  • crashing

Related words

  • bloomingly
  • bloomingness
  • everblooming
  • nonblooming
  • preblooming
  • unblooming

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “blooming” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.