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blooming

  • /ˈbluː.mɪŋ/ UK
  • /ˈblʊ.mɪŋ/ UK

Rhymes with -uːmɪŋ, -ʊmɪŋ

Where it comes from

By surface analysis, bloom + -ing.

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of bloom

adjective more blooming · most blooming

  1. Opening in blossoms; flowering.

    Similar: blossoming, flowering, in bloom, in blossom, in flower

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

    Similar: blossom, flourish, thriving

  3. Australia, Ireland, UK A euphemism for the intensifier bloody. “How'd you like to be shoved in a blooming log?'

    Similar: bally, blasted, blinking, bloomin'

adverb more blooming · most blooming

  1. Australia, UK, often, followed by well A euphemism for the intensifier bloody. My train's late again. Blooming typical.

noun bloomings

  1. countable, uncountable The act by which something blooms. 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.”
  2. countable, uncountable The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
  3. countable, uncountable A phenomenon where excessive light causes bright patches in a picture.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: flowering, rosy, flushed, healthy, rose-cheeked, rosy-cheeked, blossoming, cereus, flourishing, jasmine, thriving, burgeoning, efflorescent, verdant, rampant, growing

Translations

Every language

adj opening in blossoms

Españolfloreciente
Portuguêsflorescência
Françaisen fleur
Deutschblühend, in Blüte stehend
Italianofiorente
Ελληνικάανθισμένος anthisménos
Românăînfloritor, eflorescent
Русскийцвету́щий cvetúščij, расцвета́ющий rascvetájuščij

adj thriving in health, beauty and vigor/vigour

Françaisflorissant, florissante
Italianofiorente
Ελληνικάκοτσονάτος kotsonátos, θαλερός thalerós
Русскийцвету́щий cvetúščij, преуспева́ющий preuspevájuščij, процвета́ющий procvetájuščij

adj euphemism for "bloody"

Françaissacré, sacrée
Deutschverflixt, verdammt, verflucht
Italianosacro
Русскийпрокля́тый prokljátyj, грёбаный grjóbanyj, чёртов čórtov, хре́нов xrénov

noun blooming

Españolplancheado
Françaisfleurissement
Русскийобжи́мный стан obžímnyj stan, блю́минг bljúming

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@misc{blooming_2026,
  title = {blooming},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/blooming},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}