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blooming

[ bloo-ming ]

adjective

  1. in bloom; flowering; blossoming.
  2. glowing, as with youthful vigor and freshness:

    blooming cheeks.

  3. flourishing; prospering:

    a blooming business.

  4. Chiefly British Slang. (used as an intensifier):

    He's got his blooming nerve.



adverb

  1. Chiefly British Slang. (used as an intensifier):

    not blooming likely.

blooming

/ ˈbluːmɪŋ /

adverb

  1. informal.
    (intensifier)

    blooming painful

    a blooming genius

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • blooming·ly adverb
  • blooming·ness noun
  • non·blooming adjective noun
  • pre·blooming adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of blooming1

1350–1400; Middle English; bloom 1, -ing 2; as intensifier, a euphemism for bloody, by phonetic similarity
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Word History and Origins

Origin of blooming1

C19: euphemistic for bloody
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Example Sentences

While QLED offers some improvement over traditional LED, it doesn’t always mitigate this blooming, and the contrasts between light and dark are not as stark as with some other technologies.

Cantils form when that transition from stockpiling to blooming is postponed, as the plant keeps growing while waiting for the flowering signal, the researchers found.

As I studied up about the odd species, I discovered that its once-in-a-decade bloomings are complex processes that take up to two days to complete.

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With lights flashing, the cruiser arrived at the Blooming Grove State Police barracks in Pike County.

Frein was lodged in a holding cell at Blooming Grove barracks.

Flowers are blooming, love is in the air, and hopefulness abounds for one and all.

Except will it lead to the blooming a few years hence of a new marital theory of Sex and Substance Overload?

I pictured this vibrant arts community in this democratic, blooming Middle East.

Again she was buxom and blooming, one whose hand you would take instead of offering an arm.

At the farm-gate they met Dorothy, fresh and blooming as a rose, with a pail in each hand foaming to the brim with milk.

She was interrupted by the entrance of a fine tall blooming girl of eighteen, holding in her hand a pretty little maid of five.

Gwynne's disapproval vanished as he shook hands with the blooming young matron and met her bright laughing eyes.

During the reign of Theodore the Bishop of Ephesus found them there, blooming like roses.

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