Definition of blooming
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 … a smart, pretty girl of nineteen, with … a round face, bright, blooming cheeks, glossy, clustering curls, and little merry brown eyes. — Anne Brontë
3 informal, chiefly British —used as a generalized intensive a blooming fool He's a blooming busybody: that's what he is. — George Bernard Shaw
From the M-W Editors
Origin and Etymology of blooming
probably euphemism for bloody
First Known Use: 1592
BLOOMING Defined for English Language Learners
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—used to make an angry or critical statement more forceful
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