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Definition: Blooming |
BloomingAdjective1. In bloom; "a field carpeted with blooming violets". 2. Having the pinkish flush of health. Noun1. The organic process of bearing flowers; "you will stop all bloom if you let the flowers go to seed". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blooming" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Industry | The formation of crystals, or a powder, of a preservative on the surface of wood impregnated with it as a result of the solvent evaporating or as a by-product of the fixation process. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Efflorescence of sulphur or wax to the surface of rubber. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Post & Telecom | The defocusing of television picture areas where excessive brightness results in enlargement of spot size and halation of the fluorescent screen. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: BloomingSynonyms: flushed (adj), rose-cheeked (adj), rosy (adj), rosy-cheeked (adj), bloom (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beauty | Bright, bright eyed; rosy cheeked, cherry cheeked; rosy, ruddy; blooming, in full bloom. |
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Crosswords: Blooming |
| English words defined with "blooming": Allionia incarnata, Astilbe japonica ♦ Bloomingly, Bloomingness ♦ forsythia ♦ Magnolia stellata ♦ Night-blooming ♦ Spannishing, spiraea, spirea, star magnolia ♦ trailing four o'clock, trailing windmills. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "blooming": cogging mill ♦ Flower ♦ primary mill ♦ Roses ♦ SUPERVISOR, SOAKING PITS. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "blooming": Thalia. (references) |
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Screenplays | Roger that, Ken. Are the flowers blooming in Houston (Apollo 13; writing credit: Jim Lovell; Jeffrey Kluger) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Part II Blooming Under a Cold Moon (1960) The Blooming Angel (1920) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A small barrel cactus with little blooming buds. Credit: Beth Perault. |  | A flower blooming on a Prickly Pear cactus. Credit: Chris Tincher. |
 | Blooming Lillies in Axolotl Lake, near Virginia City. Credit: Merv Coleman. |  | A blooming cactus found in the Pueblo Mountain WSA. (WSA 2-81). Credit: Mark Armstrong. |
 | Small tree just blooming. Credit: John Craig. |  | Japanese cherry blossoms. Truck underneath blooming cherry tree. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Two boys posed, standing in front of wall and blooming tree. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Sisterhood is blooming. Springtime will never be the same. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Blooming thyme" by Shonna Clark Commentary: "A shot of the thyme in bloom." | "Osaka Castle Sakura" by Michel Lammerse Commentary: "Photo shot during beautiful spring in Osaka 2003. Osaka Castle Park is one of the nice places in Japan to view the romantic sakura blooming. camera used: Canon D10 ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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Thomas Moore | 'Tis the last rose of summer, left blooming alone; all her lovely companions are faded and gone. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | On the meadow before the door lay three harrows, through which were blooming, as best they could, all the flowers of May. |
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| "Blooming" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 45.93% of the time. "Blooming" is used about 270 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 45.93% | 124 | 28,785 |
| Adverb (general) | 27.04% | 73 | 39,105 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 26.67% | 72 | 39,377 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.37% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 270 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "blooming": blooming economy ♦ blooming Grove ♦ blooming mill ♦ blooming Prairie ♦ blooming Valley ♦ blooming with health. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "blooming": blooming-fool begonia. | |
Ending with "blooming": late-blooming, Night-blooming, spring-blooming. | |
Containing "blooming": fall-blooming hydrangea, Night-blooming cereus. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "blooming"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lulëzim (bloom, blossoming, blow, blowing, efflorescence, exfoliation, florescence, flourish, flower, flowering, heyday, inflorescence, meridian, pride, prime, prosperity, thrift), humbje e ngjyrës. (various references) | |
Arabic | منور (illuminating, in bloom, instructive), متفتح (abloom, blown, flowering, fluorescent, full blown, overblown), مزهر (bed, florentine, florid, lute), ناضر الجمال. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разцъфнал (blown), цъфтящ (abloom), здрав (durable, entire, fast, fit, flourishing, flush, good, hard, healthful, healthy, hearty, hefty, invulnerable, lasting, laudable, lusty, nervous, nervy, reliable, right, robust, rubbery, rude, rugged, safe, salubrious, seaworthy, secure, serviceable, sinewy, sleek, sober, sound, stalwart, stanch, staunch, steady, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, sure footed, taintless, tenacious, thickset, uncorrupted, up to the mark, vigorous, well, well-conditioned, without scathe), преуспяващ (auspicious, flourishing, thrifty, thriving, up and coming). (various references) | |
Chinese | 开花 (Bloomed, Blossom, Blossomed, blossoming, flowered, flowering, inflorescence). (various references) | |
Czech | zatracený (blessed, bloody, confounded, damned, darned, deuced, stupid), kvetoucí (abloom, florid, flourishing, flowering). (various references) | |
Danish | udslag (back-fire, bloom, excursion, flash back), udblomstring (efflorescence, scumming), slør (backlash, bloom, blurring, blushing, fog, haze, slur), defokuseringseffekt, coating (coating, wrapping), antirefleksbehandling (coating). (various references) | |
Dutch | bloeming beeld, bloemig beeld, waasvorming (bloom, haze), uitslag (conclusion, effect, result), uitslaan (bloom, to press, to punch, to stamp), uitbloeming (bloom), uitbloemend (blushing), uitbloemen van zwavel, uitbloemen (bloom), uitbloeiing (bloom, scumming), uitbloeien (bloom), coating (coating, skim coating), antireflexbehandeling (anti-reflecting treatment), antireflectiebehandeling (coating). (various references) | |
Finnish | pinnoitus heijastamattomaksi (anti-reflecting treatment), päällystys (coating, skim coating), kukoistava (flourishing, thriving), kukinta (bloom, flowering), käsittely heijastamattomaksi (anti-reflecting treatment), hehkeä (fresh), härmääntyminen. (various references) | |
French | en floraison, éclairé, éclos (bloom), épanoui (blown, full blown), épanouissement (bloom, blossoming), application de couche antireflets, efflorescence (bloom, blushing), éblouissement (blinding), en fleur, voile (bloom, blurring, sulphate bloom), florissant, flou d'image, hyperluminosité du spot, repousse (bloom), splendissant, traitememnt antireflet, traitement antiréfléchissant, efflorescence de soufre. (various references) | |
German | blühend (blossoming, florid, floridly, flourishing, flowering, glowing, prosperous, radiant, thriving, thrivingly, vivid). (various references) | |
Greek | άνθισμα (florescence). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משגשג (efflorescent, flourishing, on velvet, palmy, proliferating, prosperous), לבלוב (bloom, blossom, germination, sprout), פורח (flourishing, flush). (various references) | |
Hungarian | virágzó (abloom, flourishing, flowering, flowery, full blown, full-blown, palmy, prime, prosperous, thriving), virágzás (bloom, blossom, blossoming, blow, boom, florescence, flourish, flourishing, flowering, inflorescence), viruló, virulás (flourish). (various references) | |
Indonesian | berbunga (abloom, be in bloom, bear interest, flowered, interest bearing). (various references) | |
Italian | trattamento antiriflettente (anti-reflecting treatment), sopraluminosità dell'immagine, fresco (breezy, chilly, cool, coolness, crisp, fresh, green, new, recent, shady, virgin, wet), fioritura (abloom, bloom, blossom, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flourish, flower, flowering, inflorescence), fiorito (abloom, florid, floridly, flowered, flowerily, flowering, flowery), fiorente (flourishing, flowering, prosperous, thriving), efflorescenza (bloom, dimming, efflorescence, laitance, scumming, slurry, stain), effiorescenza di zolfo, effiorescenza, annebbiamento (fogging, misting), abbagliamento (dazzle). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 開花 , 妙齢 (young). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かいか (civilization, downstairs, enlightenment, fire of mysterious or suspicious origin, lower floor, open access, open shelves), みょうれい (young). (various references) | |
Korean | 개화 (rehabilitation). (various references) | |
Manx | my vlaa (efflorescent, flourishing, flowering, flowery, in flower). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oomingblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tratamento anti-reflexo (anti-reflecting treatment), ofuscamento, névoa (blur, cloud, damp, mirk, mist, mistiness, murk, rack, steam, vapor, vapour), florescente (abloom, flourishing, flowering, palmy, prosperous, thrifty), eflorescência do enxôfre, eflorescência (bloom, blushing, dimming, efflorescence, scumming, stain). (various references) | |
Romanian | înfloritor (flourishing, lusty, palmy, prosperous, thrifty, thriving), înflorit (exuberant, florid, flowery, full blown, in bloom), în floare (abloom, broad-blown, in blossom). (various references) | |
Russian | цветущий (bloomy, flowering, full blown, palmy, thrifty), обжимный стан, блюминг. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | procvetao, procvat (blossom, florescence), koji cveta (abloom). (various references) | |
Spanish | velo (film, Mantilla, mist, shroud, veil, veiling, velum), tratamiento antirreflectante (anti-reflecting treatment), radiante de salud, pijotero (bleeding), perdida de brillo (bloom), hiperluminosidad, florido (florid, flowery, ornate), floreciente (florid, flourishing, flowering, in full bloom), floreado (flowered, flowery), eflorescencia del azufre, eflorescencia (efflorescence), deslumbramiento (blinding, dazzle, glare). (various references) | |
Swedish | blooming, blomning (blossom, efflorescence, flower, flowering, inflorescence), blommande (flowering), beläggning av antireflexionsskikt (anti-reflecting treatment), utslag (award, decision, determination, eruption, finding, indication, instance, judgement, judgment, order, rule, sentence, verdict), utblomning (bloom), jäkla (bally, blasted, cursed, cussed, damn, deuced, devilish, dratted, lousy, ruddy), antireflexbehandling (coating). (various references) | |
Turkish | lanet olası (blasted, blinking, blithering, bloody, cursed, damn, damn it, damnable, damned, darned, imprecatory, ruddy), çiçekli (abloom, florid, flowered, flowering, flowery), çiçeklenme (bloom, florescence, inflorescence, spadix), çiçek açmış (in blossom), çiçek açan (efflorescent, flowering). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gьlle. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | квітучий (blowing, efflorescent, flourishing, flowered, flowering, full blown, pert, thrifty, well to do, wholesome). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tươi như hoa nở; đang ở thời kỳ rực rỡ, quá chừng (consummate, dreadfully, rank, thumping, undue, unduly, unreasonable), quá đỗi (confoundedly, right-down), hết sức (all-fired, deadly, dogged, enourmously, extremely, fault, frightfuly, grossly, half, halves, handle, highly, howling, hugely, immortally, jolly, mightily, mighty, out, precious, profound, sorely, thoroughly, thundering, unco), đang nở hoa tươi đẹp. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | floridam, floridus, viride, virides, viridi, viridia, viriditas. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "blooming": everblooming, outblooming, reblooming. (additional references) | |
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"Blooming" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: belloming, blaiming, bloing, bloomin, Blouin, Blumine, bolonian, broming. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "blooming" (pronounced bluw"ming) |
| 5 | -l uw" m i ng | looming. |
| 4 | -uw" m i ng | assuming, booming, consuming, dooming, fuming, grooming, presuming, resuming, rooming, unassuming, zooming. |
| 3 | -m i ng | acclaiming, affirming, aiming, alarming, arming, barnstorming, beaming, becoming, blaming, blossoming, bombing, bottoming, brainstorming, brimming, calming, charming, claiming, climbing, combing, coming, condemning, confirming, conforming, cramming, damming, damning, daydreaming, deprogramming, diagraming, dimming, disarming, disclaiming, dreaming, drumming, dumbing, embalming, exclaiming, farming, filming, firebombing, firming, flaming, foaming, forming, forthcoming, framing, gaming, gleaming, gloaming, harming, heartwarming, helming, hemming, homecoming, homing, humming, incoming, inflaming, informing, jamming, lambing, lemming, liming, maiming, mainstreaming, misinforming, mushrooming, naming, nonperforming, numbing, oncoming, outperforming, overcoming, overwhelming, performing, plumbing, priming, proclaiming, programing, programming, ramming, reaffirming, rearming, reclaiming, redeeming, reforming, renaming, reprogramming, rhyming, roaming, scheming, screaming, seeming, shaming, shortcoming, skimming, slamming, slimming, squirming, steaming, stemming, storming, streaming, strumming, succumbing, summing, swarming, swimming, taming, teaming, teeming, terming, thumbing, timing, transforming, trimming, unbecoming, upcoming, vacuuming, warming, welcoming. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-g-i-l-m-n-o-o" | |
-1 letter: booming, looming. | |
-2 letters: booing, globin, goblin, logion, looing, mongol, mooing, oblong. | |
-3 letters: bingo, bloom, boing, bongo, gloom, gombo, igloo, limbo, lingo, logoi, mongo, nomoi, oboli. | |
-4 letters: blin, boil, bolo, bong, boom, boon, glib, glim, glob, glom, gobo, goon, limb, limn, limo, ling, lino, lion, lobo, logo, loin, long, loom, loon, milo, moil, mono, mool. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-g-i-l-m-n-o-o" | |
+1 letter: myoglobin. | |
+2 letters: beglooming, blossoming, hemoglobin, myoglobins, reblooming. | |
+3 letters: bamboozling, hemoglobins, outblooming. | |
+4 letters: automobiling, everblooming, lobotomising, lobotomizing, snowmobiling. | |
+5 letters: macroglobulin, methemoglobin, oxyhemoglobin, snowmobilings. | |
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