bloomingly

Adverb

bloomingly (comparative more bloomingly, superlative most bloomingly)

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 :1735 April 26, “Song V.: Tweed Side”, in The Weekly amusement: or, The universal magazine, number 25, page 682
   • But whether observed or not by the dust-loving eyes of vanity and fashion, nature goes silently and bloomingly on.1795, Samuel Jackson, Gleanings through Wales, Holland and Westphalia, page 159
2. While blossoming; in the process of blooming.
   • A rose-tree never appears so bloomingly lovely as when placed between two leafless thorns .1808, Maria Edgeworth, The Match Girl, page 121
   • 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 ?1864, Jean Paul, The Campaner Thal, and Other Writings, page 353
3. In the bloom of health; flourishingly.
   • Though Mrs. Belsize made herself so intensely agreeable, was what is called a "fine woman," (certainly not more than forty,) and became her age bloomingly; yet the young clergyman shrunk from her ordinary civilities , and positively winced at her more glaring attentions .1854, Our Honeymoon: And Other Comicalities from "Punch.", page 209
   • She little thinks how fatal are those charms she bears bloomingly into womanhood .1855, Francis Colburn Adams, Our World: Or, The Slaveholder's Daughter, page 396
4. Redly; in a rosy manner.
   • Little Jimmy was none the worse for the climate; the frost and snow delighted him, the boisterous easterly windows only brought the roses more bloomingly into his cheeks, and even the dreary wet days did not seem to have any injurious effect upon his robust and healthy spirits .1899, Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron, A Man's Undoing, page 195
   • An early writer on the poem remarked that his manuscript was "bloomingly erubricated with Latin quotations ."1910, Publications - Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women, page 140
5. 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.1852, J. G. MacWalter, The Irish Reformation Movement in Its Religious, Social, and Political Aspects
   • To me, fresh from a desert where they beat you for carrying books, it seemed profoundly cultivated, bloomingly humanistic.1994, Robert Patrick, Temple Slave, page 70
6. 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.1865, Annie Thomas, On Guard, page 72
   • I hate her with a B because she's so bitterly bellicose, and so bloomingly blunt.1882, Chums, Chums: A Tale of the Queen's Navy - Volume 1, page 249