Blooming
['bluːmɪŋ] or ['blumɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the organic process of bearing flowers; 'you will stop all bloom if you let the flowers go to seed'.
Inputed by Jesse--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bloom
(n.) The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
(a.) Opening in blossoms; flowering.
(a.) Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Flourishing, fair, flowering, blossoming, young, beautiful
ANT:Fading, waning, blighted, old, blasted, paralyzed, superannuated, unsightly,deformed
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Examples
- He saw Heloise, and was captivated by her blooming youth, her beauty, and her charming disposition. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- As her once elastic walk had become deadened by time, so had her natural pride of life been hindered in its blooming by her necessities. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She might be thirty-nine or forty, and was buxom and blooming as a girl of twenty. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The blooming Judy, without removing her gaze from the fire, gives her grandfather one ghostly poke. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She was young, not indeed so beautiful as her whose portrait I held, but of an agreeable aspect, and blooming in the loveliness of youth and health. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I mourned for my child-wife, taken from her blooming world, so young. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- What a blooming young creature you seem, and what a prize the rogue has got! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You took me by surprise,' said Mr Rokesmith, 'and it sounded like an omen, that you should speak of showing the Dead to one so young and blooming. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I mean his letting that blooming young girl marry Casaubon. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Miss Keeldar gathered handfuls of the profusely blooming flowers whose perfume filled the enclosure. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They are like faces which were never really beautiful, but only blooming; and now the bloom of youth has passed away from them? Plato. The Republic.
- Sweet, blooming, orange flowers! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Well, they tell me I am looking pretty blooming,' said the man with the cocked hat, 'and it's a wonder, too. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The surface of England began to look pleasant: her fields grew green, her hills fresh, her gardens blooming; but at heart she was no better. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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