blooming Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the organic process of bearing flowers
    bloom.
    • you will stop all bloom if you let the flowers go to seed
  2. verb produce or yield flowers
    blossom; flower; bloom.
    • The cherry tree bloomed
  3. adjective satellite informal intensifiers
    fucking; bally; flaming; blinking; bloody; crashing.
    • what a bally (or blinking) nuisance
    • a bloody fool
    • a crashing bore
    • you flaming idiot

WordNet

Bloom"ing noun
Definitions
  1. (Metal.) The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
Bloom"ing adjective
Definitions
  1. Opening in blossoms; flowering.
  2. Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.

Webster 1913