Definitions for blooming

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blooming bloom·ing

Spelling: [bloo-ming]

IPA: /ˈblu mɪŋ/

Blooming is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 196 anagrams from letters in blooming (bgilmnoo).

Definitions for blooming

noun

1. the flower of a plant.
2. flowers collectively:
3. state of having the buds opened:
4. a flourishing, healthy condition; the time or period of greatest beauty, artistry, etc.:
5. a glow or flush on the cheek indicative of youth and health:
6. the glossy, healthy appearance of the coat of an animal.
7. a moist, lustrous appearance indicating freshness in fish.
8. redness or a fresh appearance on the surface of meat.
9. Botany. a whitish powdery deposit or coating, as on the surface of certain fruits and leaves:
10. any similar surface coating or appearance:
11. any of certain minerals occurring as powdery coatings on rocks or other minerals.
12. Also called chill. a clouded or dull area on a varnished or lacquered surface.
13. Also called algal bloom, water bloom. the sudden development of conspicuous masses of organisms, as algae, on the surface of a body of water.
14. Television. image spread produced by excessive exposure of highlights in a television image.
15. a piece of steel, square or slightly oblong in section, reduced from an ingot to dimensions suitable for further rolling.
16. a large lump of iron and slag, of pasty consistency when hot, produced in a puddling furnace or bloomery and hammered into wrought iron.

Idioms

1. take the bloom off, to remove the enjoyment or ultimate satisfaction from; dampen the enthusiasm over:
2. the bloom is off (the rose), the excitement, enjoyment, interest, etc., has ended or been dampened.

adverb

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

adjective

1. in bloom; flowering; blossoming.
2. glowing, as with youthful vigor and freshness:
3. flourishing; prospering:
4. Chiefly British Slang. (used as an intensifier):

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to yield blossoms.
2. to make bloom or cause to flourish:
3. to invest with luster or beauty:
4. to cause a cloudy area on (something shiny); dampen; chill:
5. Optics. to coat (a lens) with an antireflection material.
6. to make (an ingot) into a bloom.

verb (used without object)

1. to produce or yield blossoms.
2. to flourish or thrive:
3. to be in or achieve a state of healthful beauty and vigor:
4. to glow with warmth or with a warm color.

Origin of blooming

1350-1400; Middle English; see bloom¹, -ing²; as intensifier, a euphemism for bloody, by pho

Examples for blooming

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

So the years passed, the angel watching his blooming charge.

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

Hilda Marsh—Hilda the blooming, the full bosomed, the matronly.

He bent over the child, and laid her blooming cheek against his face.

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

She was standing against a background of blooming hollyhocks.

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

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

But ye cannot be his children; for he is young and blooming.