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

Plants grow from a tuber rather than a true bulb but follow the same cycle of blooming and dormancy as spring flowering bulbs. —Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 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

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

Mums need moisture to stay healthy and continue blooming. —Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2025

This summer-blooming perennial can be divided in spring or fall, but since spring is so busy with many garden chores, why not do it this fall? —Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Sep. 2025

But not all is sunshine and a thousand flowers blooming at once. —Samantha Allen, Them., 2 Sep. 2025

Temple Oud, Cécred’s signature fragrance that lingers with notes of oud, sandalwood, and night-blooming jasmine. —Jailynn Taylor, Allure, 1 Sep. 2025

While millions follow the Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce romance, another celebrity relationship blooming in Chiefs Kingdom is picking up Xavier Worthy-like speed. —Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 23 Aug. 2025

Consider long-blooming summer flowers such as black-eyed Susan, as well as goldenrod, sedum and asters. —Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2025

The feet and lid are colored, but the body is clear—and without a filter, it’s perfectly suited for whole flowers and other blooming teas (Lisa recommends handwashing it to avoid damage). —Elissa Suh, Architectural Digest, 21 Aug. 2025

Season 3 also raises the stakes at Binder, Hurwitz & Stewart with the arrival of Bill Sterling (Joseph Sikora), a late-blooming lawyer and Coast Guard veteran whose ambition to make partner puts him in close orbit with Jax. —Okla Jones, Essence, 20 Aug. 2025