Blossoming vs. Blooming

Blossoming vs. Blooming — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Blossoming and Blooming

Blossomingnoun

The act or process by which something blossoms.

Bloomingadjective

Opening in blossoms; flowering.

Blossomingnoun

the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms

Bloomingadjective

Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor, vigour; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.

Bloomingadjective

bloody; bleeding; extremely.

Bloomingadverb

Bloody; bleeding; extremely.

My train's late again. Blooming typical.
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Bloomingnoun

The act by which something blooms.

Bloomingnoun

(metallurgy) The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.

Bloomingnoun

(photography) A phenomenon where excessive light causes bright patches in a picture.

Bloomingnoun

the organic process of bearing flowers;

you will stop all bloom if you let the flowers go to seed

Bloomingadjective

(used of persons) informal intensifiers;

what a bally (or blinking) nuisancea bloody foola crashing boreyou flaming idiot