blooming

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blooming

A single red rose is blooming in the morning sun.

Definition

  1. Adjective:

    • Flourishing, flowering: In a state of health, vigor, and beauty; literally, bearing flowers.
    • Informal intensifier: Used as a mild, euphemistic swear word to add emphasis, expressing annoyance, surprise, or to intensify a description.

  2. Noun:

    • The process of bearing flowers: The organic process by which a plant produces its blossoms.
Usage and Examples

  • Adjective (Flourishing):

    • The garden is blooming with roses this spring.
    • She looked blooming with health after her vacation.

  • Adjective (Informal intensifier):

    • It's a blooming shame they cancelled the concert.
    • Where's that blooming key? I can't find it anywhere.

  • Noun:

    • The blooming of the cherry trees is a major tourist attraction.
    • To ensure continuous blooming, deadhead the spent flowers.
Advanced Usage
  • "in (full) bloom": At the peak stage of flowering or development.
    • The apple trees are in full bloom. (Note: This idiom uses the base noun "bloom," not the adjective "blooming.")
    • Her talent as a painter was in full bloom.
Variants and Related Words

  • Bloom (noun/verb): The flower or state of flowering (n); to produce flowers or to flourish (v).

    • The tulips are in bloom.
    • Her confidence began to bloom.

  • Bloomer (noun, informal): A mistake or blunder.

    • I made a real bloomer by forgetting his name.

  • Blooming (as a gerund): The verbal noun form.

    • Blooming requires the right amount of sunlight and water.
Synonyms
  • Adjective (Flourishing): Thriving, flourishing, radiant, glowing.
  • Adjective (Intensifier): Confounded, blasted, flaming, wretched.
  • Noun: Flowering, blossoming, florescence, efflorescence.
Antonyms
  • Adjective (Flourishing): Withering, fading, wilting, declining.
  • Noun: Withering, fading.
Notes on Usage
  • The informal, intensifying use of "blooming" (e.g., ) is considered old-fashioned or British English. It is a mild expletive, often used to avoid stronger language.
  • The primary and formal meaning relates to flowers and figurative health or beauty.
blooming

A single red rose is blooming in the morning sun.

Adjective
  1. informal intensifiers
    • what a bally (or blinking) nuisance
    • a bloody fool
    • a crashing bore
    • you flaming idiot
Noun
  1. the organic process of bearing flowers
    • you will stop all bloom if you let the flowers go to seed

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