blooming

blooming
    adj 1: informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking)
           nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you
           flaming idiot" [syn: {bally(a)}, {blinking(a)},
           {bloody(a)}, {blooming(a)}, {crashing(a)}, {flaming(a)},
           {fucking(a)}]
    n 1: the organic process of bearing flowers; "you will stop all
         bloom if you let the flowers go to seed" [syn: {blooming},
         {bloom}]
    

Bloom \Bloom\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bloomed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Blooming}.]
   1. To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be
      in flower.
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            A flower which once
            In Paradise, fast by the tree of life,
            Began to bloom.                       --Milton.
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   2. To be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigor; to
      show beauty and freshness, as of flowers; to give promise,
      as by or with flowers.
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            A better country blooms to view,

            Beneath a brighter sky.               --Logan.
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Blooming \Bloom"ing\, n. (Metal.)
   The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
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Blooming \Bloom"ing\, a.
   1. Opening in blossoms; flowering.
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   2. Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; indicating the
      freshness and beauties of youth or health.
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18 Moby Thesaurus words for "blooming":
      absolute, blamed, blankety-blank, blasted, bleeding, blinking,
      bloody, complete, consummate, cursed, damnable, execrable,
      infernal, out-and-out, outright, rank, ruddy, unmitigated