blooming

About 1.34 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb present participle and gerund of bloom
2. adjective Opening in blossoms; flowering.
3. adjective Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor, vigour; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.
4. adjective A euphemism for the intensifier bloody.
5. adverb A euphemism for the intensifier bloody.

   My train's late again. Blooming typical.

6. noun The act by which something blooms.
7. noun The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
8. noun A phenomenon where excessive light causes bright patches in a picture.

Similar words

flowering rosy flushed healthy rose-cheeked rosy-cheeked blossoming cereus flourishing jasmine

Often followed by

in and of flowers with period season on plants