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BLOOMING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The organic process of bearing flowers
Example:
you will stop all bloom if you let the flowers go to seed
Synonyms:
bloom; blooming
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("blooming" is a kind of...):
biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Informal intensifiers
Example:
you flaming idiot
Synonyms:
bally; blinking; bloody; blooming; crashing; flaming; fucking
Classified under:
Similar:
unmitigated (not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb bloom
Context examples:
Don't you find Mr. Wickfield blooming, sir?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Jane, you look blooming, and smiling, and pretty, said he: truly pretty this morning.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents; how many brides and youthful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb!
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
It seemed quite fairylike to Jo, as she went up and down the walks, enjoying the blooming walls on either side, the soft light, the damp sweet air, and the wonderful vines and trees that hung about her, while her new friend cut the finest flowers till his hands were full.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Twelve years had changed Anne from the blooming, silent, unformed girl of fifteen, to the elegant little woman of seven-and-twenty, with every beauty except bloom, and with manners as consciously right as they were invariably gentle; and twelve years had transformed the fine-looking, well-grown Miss Hamilton, in all the glow of health and confidence of superiority, into a poor, infirm, helpless widow, receiving the visit of her former protegee as a favour; but all that was uncomfortable in the meeting had soon passed away, and left only the interesting charm of remembering former partialities and talking over old times.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
The clear red and white of her complexion was not so blooming and flower-like as usual, I thought, when she turned round; but she looked very pretty, Wonderfully pretty.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In each of the sisters there was one trait of the mother—and only one; the thin and pallid elder daughter had her parent's Cairngorm eye: the blooming and luxuriant younger girl had her contour of jaw and chin—perhaps a little softened, but still imparting an indescribable hardness to the countenance otherwise so voluptuous and buxom.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
About five in the morning I discovered my lovely boy, whom the night before I had seen blooming and active in health, stretched on the grass livid and motionless; the print of the murder’s finger was on his neck.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Janet was a pretty blooming girl, of about nineteen or twenty, and a perfect picture of neatness.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
All is still: he again advances: he bends above her; a light veil rests on her features: he lifts it, bends lower; now his eyes anticipate the vision of beauty—warm, and blooming, and lovely, in rest.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
