blooming

Other forms of blooming

plural

bloomings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about blooming

What does blooming mean?

blooming means "the organic process of bearing flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blooming?

blooming has 2 syllables: bloo-ming. The stress falls on "bloo". In IPA it is /ˈblumɪŋ/.

What is another word for blooming?

Close synonyms include bloom, bally, blinking, bloody, crashing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blooming a common word?

blooming is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.