Definition of blooming
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: 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
