Definition of Blooming

1. Noun. The organic process of bearing flowers. "You will stop all bloom if you let the flowers go to seed"

Exact synonyms: Bloom
Generic synonyms: Biological Process, Organic Process
Derivative terms: Bloom

2. Adjective. Informal intensifiers. "You flaming idiot"
Exact synonyms: Bally, Blinking, Bloody, Crashing, Flaming, Fucking
Similar to: Unmitigated

Definition of Blooming

1. n. The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.

2. a. Opening in blossoms; flowering.

Definition of Blooming

1. Verb. (present participle of bloom) ¹

2. Adjective. Opening in blossoms; flowering. ¹

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

4. Adjective. (British euphemistic) bloody (''in its vulgar senses''). ¹

5. Adverb. (euphemistic) Bloody; bleeding; extremely ¹

6. Noun. The act by which something blooms. ¹

7. Noun. (metallurgy) The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Blooming

1. bloom [v] - See also: bloom

Medical Definition of Blooming

1. The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blooming

blooks
bloom
bloom is off the peach
bloom is off the rose
bloom of youth
bloom syndrome
bloomaries
bloomary
bloomed
bloomer
bloomeries
bloomers
bloomery
bloomier
bloomiest
blooming (current term)
blooming(a)
blooming-fool begonia
blooming heck
blooming hell
bloomingly
bloomingness
bloomings
bloomless
blooms
bloomy
bloop
blooped
blooper
bloopers

Literary usage of Blooming

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"S. Frae the friends t With green spreading bushes, and flow'rs blooming fair; S. How pleasant the banks ^ Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every ..."

2. The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel by James McIntyre Camp, Charles Blaine Francis (1920)
"The blooming mills in use at the present time will range in size from ... blooming Mills, Their Advantages and Disadvantages: blooming mills are of three ..."

3. The American Rose Annual by American Rose Society (1918)
"Color and growth very good; foliage and form above average; blooming qualities fairly good. ... Attractive color; growth and blooming qualities not good. ..."

4. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"And from the strings the arrows sprang ; and thick The javelins pour'd, and some transpierced the flesh Of blooming warriors slain ; but in mid space, ..."

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