blooming
Plural: bloomings
Noun
- the organic process of bearing flowers
- The act by which something blooms.
- The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
- A phenomenon where excessive light causes bright patches in a picture.
Verb
- produce or yield flowers
- present participle and gerund of bloom
Adjective Satellite
- informal intensifiers
Adj
- Opening in blossoms; flowering.
- Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor, vigour; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.
- A euphemism for the intensifier bloody.
Adv
- A euphemism for the intensifier bloody.
Examples
- My train's late again. Blooming typical.
Origin / Etymology
By surface analysis, bloom + -ing.
Synonyms
bally, blinking, bloody, bloom, blossom, crashing, flaming, flower, fucking, blasted, bloomin', blossoming, flourish, flowering, in bloom, in blossom, in flower, thriving
Scrabble Score: 13
blooming: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordblooming: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
blooming: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary