blooming
adjective or adverb
bloom·ing ˈblü-mən 
-miŋ
1
: having blooms unfolding : flowering
a blooming rose
a blooming cherry tree
2
: thriving in health, beauty, and vigor : exhibiting the freshness and beauties of youth or health
… ever since she was a blooming lass of twenty.
George Eliot
George Eliot… a smart, pretty girl of nineteen, with … a round face, bright, blooming cheeks, glossy, clustering curls, and little merry brown eyes. Anne Brontë
Anne Brontë3
chiefly British, informal —used as a generalized intensive
a blooming foolHe's a blooming busybody: that's what he is. George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Synonyms
- florid
- flush
- full-blooded
- glowing
- red
- rosy
- rubicund
- ruddy
- sanguine
See all Synonyms & Antonyms 
Word History
Etymology
probably euphemism for bloody
First Known Use
1592, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Phrases Containing blooming
blooming 1 of 3
adjective
1
as in glowing
having a healthy reddish skin tone the blooming faces of children at play in the great outdoors Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- glowing
- red
- rosy
- flush
- warm
- ruddy
- tanned
- blushing
- brown
- pink
- rubicund
- florid
- flushed
- sanguine
- bloomy
- pinkish
- blowsy
- bronzed
- blowzy
- suntanned
- full-blooded
- cherubic
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- pale
- sallow
- pallid
- white
- livid
- lurid
- peaked
- ashen
- palish
- waxen
- wan
- waxy
- pasty
- doughy
- sallowish
- peaky
- mealy
- ashy
- paled
- sickly
- blanched
- whitened
- anemic
- sick
- bloodless
- cadaverous
- whey-faced
- white-faced
2
as in unconditional
chiefly British having no exceptions or restrictions thought that the royals were blooming idiots for making such indiscreet statements Synonyms & Similar Words
- unconditional
- complete
- sheer
- absolute
- utter
- pure
- very
- perfect
- definite
- simple
- damned
- total
- damn
- outright
- real
- deadly
- stone
- crashing
- dead
- endless
- huge
- dreadful
- downright
- unmitigated
- clean
- profound
- bodacious
- consummate
- plumb
- thoroughgoing
- constant
- unadulterated
- blank
- flat
- stark
- perpetual
- eternal
- regular
- thorough
- fair
- arrant
- rank
- out-and-out
- unalloyed
- genuine
- categorical
- straight-out
- unqualified
- horrible
- flat-out
- all-out
- veritable
- unremitting
- terrible
- undying
- authentic
- extreme
- extraordinary
- hopeless
- main
- categoric
- terrific
- classic
- surpassing
- unrestricted
- supreme
- confirmed
- superlative
- frightful
- habitual
- inveterate
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- uncertain
- restricted
- questionable
- doubtful
- dubious
- qualified
- equivocal
blooming
2 of 3noun
as in flowering
Synonyms & Similar Words
- flowering
- blossoming
- autumn
- efflorescence
- bloom
- blossom
- flower
- summit
- springtime
- zenith
- peak
- pinnacle
- meridian
- apex
- florescence
- prime
- climax
- acme
- heyday
- grandeur
- Indian summer
- golden age
- flush
- salad days
- splendor
- revival
- silver age
- floruit
- belle epoque
- high noon
- recovery
- glory
- belle époque
- comeback
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- decay
- decline
- downfall
- bottom
- wilting
- nadir
- withering
- shriveling
- shrivelling
blooming
3 of 3verb
1
as in blossoming
to produce flowers forsythias only bloom at the beginning of spring Synonyms & Similar Words
- flowering
- blossoming
- unfolding
- burgeoning
- bourgeoning
- leaving
- blowing
- leafing
- budding
- efflorescing
- opening
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- wilting
- fading
- shriveling
- shrivelling
- withering
- dying
- perishing
- dropping
- expiring
- drying up
2
as in blushing
to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment) she arrived at the house, blooming from her vigorous walk Synonyms & Similar Words
- blushing
- glowing
- flushing
- crimsoning
- reddening
- turning color
- rouging
- coloring
- ruddling
- disconcerting
- abashing
- incarnadining
- mortifying
- fazing
- humiliating
- discomfiting
- embarrassing
- chagrining
- phaii
- phainopepla
- Phaius
- phaiuses
- Phajus
- phak-
- phako-
- phal
- phal balance
- phalacrocoraces
- phalacrocoracidaes
- phalacrocoracine
- Phalacrocorax
- phalacrocoraxes
- phalacroses
- phalacrosises
- phalacrosisses
- Phalaecean
- Phalaenidae
- phalaenopses
- phalaenopsid
- phalaenopsis
- phalaenopsises
- phalaenopsisses
- phalaenoptili