blooming
adjective or adverb
-miŋ\
Definition of blooming
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 foolHe's a blooming busybody: that's what he is.— George Bernard Shaw
Synonyms & Antonyms for blooming
Synonyms
florid, flush, full-blooded, glowing, red, rosy, rubicund, ruddy, sanguine
Antonyms
ashen, ashy, doughy, livid, lurid, mealy, pale, paled, palish, pallid, pasty, peaked, peaky, sallow, sallowish, wan
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blooming
adjective
English Language Learners Definition of blooming
—used to make an angry or critical statement more forceful
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