BLOOMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blooming mean? 

• BLOOMING (noun)
  The noun BLOOMING has 1 sense:

1. the organic process of bearing flowers

  Familiarity information: BLOOMING used as a noun is very rare.

• BLOOMING (adjective)
  The adjective BLOOMING has 1 sense:

1. informal intensifiers

  Familiarity information: BLOOMING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOOMING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The organic process of bearing flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

bloom; blooming

Context example:

you will stop all bloom if you let the flowers go to seed

Hypernyms ("blooming" is a kind of...):

biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)

• BLOOMING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Informal intensifiers

Synonyms:

bally; blinking; bloody; blooming; crashing; flaming; fucking

Context example:

you flaming idiot

Similar:

unmitigated (not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier)

 Context examples 

I mourned for my child-wife, taken from her blooming world, so young.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A pretty little house stood at the top of the lane, with a garden before it, exquisitely neat and brilliantly blooming.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They never asked why she sang about her work, did up her hair three times a day, and got so blooming with her evening exercise.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Never more so; for the edge of a blooming cheek is still in view—at once too much and too little.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She remembered nothing more until she awoke and found herself in a beautiful meadow, full of sunshine, and with countless flowers blooming in every direction.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

A woman was sleeping on some straw; she was young, not indeed so beautiful as her whose portrait I held, but of an agreeable aspect and blooming in the loveliness of youth and health.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was so with Elizabeth, still the same handsome Miss Elliot that she had begun to be thirteen years ago, and Sir Walter might be excused, therefore, in forgetting her age, or, at least, be deemed only half a fool, for thinking himself and Elizabeth as blooming as ever, amidst the wreck of the good looks of everybody else; for he could plainly see how old all the rest of his family and acquaintance were growing.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

She had a few tender reveries now and then, which he could sometimes take advantage of to look in her face without detection; and the result of these looks was, that though as bewitching as ever, her face was less blooming than it ought to be.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Emma watched the entree of her own particular little friend; and if she could not exult in her dignity and grace, she could not only love the blooming sweetness and the artless manner, but could most heartily rejoice in that light, cheerful, unsentimental disposition which allowed her so many alleviations of pleasure, in the midst of the pangs of disappointed affection.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

So altered—so faded—worn down by acute suffering of every kind! hardly could I believe the melancholy and sickly figure before me, to be the remains of the lovely, blooming, healthful girl, on whom I had once doted.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)