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English
Etymology
By surface analysis, bloom + -ing.
Pronunciation
Verb
blooming
- present participle and gerund of bloom
Adjective
blooming (comparative more blooming, superlative most blooming)
- Opening in blossoms; flowering.
- Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor, vigour; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.
- (British, Australia, dated) A euphemism for the intensifier bloody.
Synonyms
- (opening in blossoms): blossoming, flowering, in bloom, in blossom, in flower
- (thriving in health, beauty and vigor/vigour): blossoming, flourishing, thriving
- (euphemism for "bloody"): bally (British), blasted, blinking, bloomin'
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Translations
thriving in health, beauty and vigor/vigour
Adverb
blooming (comparative more blooming, superlative most blooming)
- (British, Australia, often followed by well) A euphemism for the intensifier bloody.
My train's late again. Blooming typical.
1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 90:“Well, all I can say is that if yer don't take yer dial outer the road I'll bloomin' well take an' bounce a gibber off yer crust.”
1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court:It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”
Noun
blooming (countable and uncountable, plural bloomings)
- The act by which something blooms.
2007 July 23, Jeremy Pearce, “Anne McLaren, 80, Expert on the Embryo, Is Dead”, in New York Times:Such bloomings, Dr. McLaren continued, would require a critical audience, “so that they can be subject to scientific and ethical review, freely available for research and one day, perhaps, for treating diseases.”
- (metallurgy) The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
- (photography) A phenomenon where excessive light causes bright patches in a picture.
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