Synonyms of blooming

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adjective

ˈblü-mən 

1

as in glowing

having a healthy reddish skin tone

the blooming faces of children at play in the great outdoors

Synonyms & Similar Words

• glowing
• red
• tanned
• flush
• rosy
• warm
• ruddy
• blushing
• brown
• florid
• sanguine
• pink
• flushed
• rubicund
• pinkish
• bronzed
• blowsy
• suntanned
• full-blooded
• blowzy
• bloomy
• cherubic

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pale
• sallow
• pallid
• livid
• ashen
• lurid
• peaked
• wan
• white
• pasty
• ashy
• palish
• mealy
• doughy
• waxen
• peaky
• waxy
• blanched
• sallowish
• whitened
• paled
• sickly
• anemic
• sick
• bloodless
• cadaverous
• white-faced
• whey-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
• sheer
• complete
• absolute
• utter
• pure
• simple
• definite
• total
• perfect
• very
• damned
• damn
• outright
• real
• deadly
• crashing
• huge
• endless
• profound
• dead
• dreadful
• clean
• unmitigated
• downright
• consummate
• constant
• blank
• thoroughgoing
• regular
• unadulterated
• thorough
• flat
• stark
• bodacious
• fair
• categorical
• eternal
• perpetual
• stone
• unqualified
• plumb
• out-and-out
• genuine
• rank
• arrant
• flat-out
• straight-out
• all-out
• horrible
• unalloyed
• terrible
• veritable
• categoric
• authentic
• unremitting
• extreme
• undying
• main
• extraordinary
• hopeless
• classic
• unrestricted
• terrific
• supreme
• confirmed
• habitual
• superlative
• inveterate
• frightful
• surpassing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• uncertain
• restricted
• doubtful
• questionable
• dubious
• qualified
• equivocal

blooming

2 of 3

verb

present participle of bloom

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
• efflorescing
• leafing
• budding
• opening

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• fading
• wilting
• withering
• drying up
• dying
• shriveling
• shrivelling
• expiring
• dropping
• perishing

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
• reddening
• crimsoning
• turning color
• coloring
• rouging
• disconcerting
• ruddling
• mortifying
• incarnadining
• humiliating
• embarrassing
• abashing
• discomfiting
• fazing
• chagrining

blooming

3 of 3

noun

as in flowering

Related Words

• flowering
• blossoming
• autumn
• efflorescence
• bloom
• blossom
• summit
• flower
• Indian summer
• zenith
• pinnacle
• meridian
• peak
• apex
• springtime
• climax
• heyday
• prime
• acme
• grandeur
• florescence
• golden age
• flush
• salad days
• splendor
• revival
• floruit
• recovery
• high noon
• glory
• belle époque
• silver age
• belle epoque
• comeback

Dissimilar Words

• decay
• decline
• downfall
• bottom
• wilting
• nadir
• withering
• shriveling
• shrivelling

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of blooming

Adjective

In Möbius strip fashion, Gein grows obsessed with crime — and the toxic blooming of his obsession into murder goes on to enthrall the world. —Daniel D'addario, Variety, 30 Sep. 2025

Division also promotes heavier blooming. —Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2025

The blooming of Korea’s Asian Spring was cut short by the arrival of foreign occupying armies. —Kornel Chang september 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025

Tombstone holds an annual rose festival in April to celebrate the blooming of the original Shady Lady, according to the museum website. —Olivia Rose, AZCentral.com, 14 Aug. 2025

Verb

Yes mama, violets do it best—blooming and enduring despite the rough summer heat. —Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025

The multiyear partnership, a first for both the brand and the league, cemented the already blooming relationship between the players and fashion. —Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025

Besides its many uses in cooking, a lavender plant adds fragrance and color wherever it's planted—along a path, beside a patio, or in a pot on your back deck—thanks to a long blooming season. —Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2025

In late spring, the city hums with farmers’ markets, craft beer events and bike rides along blooming lakefront paths. —Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2025

Mums are grown in different crops to have three or four peak blooming times. —Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 30 Aug. 2025

Each spring, hotel staff plant more than to ensure a beautiful blooming season in the hotel's gardens, the hotel said on Facebook. —Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 4 Aug. 2025

Noun

Nixon’s professed and late-blooming concern for safeguarding the rights of criminal defendants might be a bit hard to swallow; these were, after all, the Watergate burglars. —Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025

Dramatic ball skirts blooming with color and texture were styled with simple silk Ts and cotton shirts. —Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025

Spring-blooming varieties can appear in late February, sending blooms through March or April. —Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 8 Oct. 2025

For styling, use blooming gels—do candy swirls in multiple chocolates and go monochromatic from light to dark (or dark to light). —Larry Stansbury, Essence, 6 Oct. 2025

Save your dahlias, cannas, and other summer-blooming bulbs for next year with these must-know storage tips. —Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Oct. 2025

Alaïa took the trend further with an oversized black flower choker blooming from the closure of a cropped jacket. —Minty Mellon, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2025

Ground station crews that today coordinate elegant sequences of thruster burns will face more chaotic obstacle courses and bigger debris fields blooming across their display monitors. —IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2025

Real, beautiful, blooming flowers. —Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 28 Sep. 2025