bloomingly

adv

Etymology

From blooming + -ly.

Definitions

  1. With or by flowers that are blooming.

    • The fields dress'd so bloomingly gay ; The birds that delightfully sing -Delight not when Celia's away :
    • But whether observed or not by the dust-loving eyes of vanity and fashion, nature goes silently and bloomingly on.
  2. While blossoming

    While blossoming; in the process of blooming.

    • A rose-tree never appears so bloomingly lovely as when placed between two leafless thorns .
    • But when I am grown old, and in the obstruction of death, will not all that now rustles so bloomingly and livingly about me appear gray and dull ?
    • Beneath it the primrose looked. bloomingly fair; The hyacinth danced, in its mantle of green ; And over the rill waved the sweet meadow queen.
  3. In the bloom of health

    In the bloom of health; flourishingly.

    • She little thinks how fatal are those charms she bears bloomingly into womanhood .
  4. + 3 more definitions
    1. Redly

      Redly; in a rosy manner.

      • An early writer on the poem remarked that his manuscript was "bloomingly erubricated with Latin quotations ."
      • Bunty sat bloomingly regal in the same old red-silk dress with a pearl collar and tiara, day after day, playing on the red-lacquered grand piano.
    2. Coming into full development or openness.

      • May He spare him to see throughout the land bloomingly flourish the good see he himself so sedulously sowed.
      • To me, fresh from a desert where they beat you for carrying books, it seemed profoundly cultivated, bloomingly humanistic.
      • Yet in that small room my heart always opened so warmly, nay glowingly and bloomingly, so that now I want to be with you again for good and not part with you until the sun shines sweetly and lures me into the pine forest
    3. Used as a mild intensifier

      • As she said this, Lady Lexley grew more bloomingly vicious; and, despite the opaque whiteness of Miss Harper's skin, a shade of green shot across her face.
      • I hate her with a B because she's so bitterly bellicose, and so bloomingly blunt.
      • What is the name of one so bloomingly needing of a good man as you?

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA