Word.ws English Dictionary

bloomy

bloomy adjective: having or resembling a bloom (as on fruit).

Adjective

bloomy (comparative more bloomy, superlative most bloomy)

  1. Having or resembling a bloom (as on fruit).
    • There young Telemachus, his bloomy face / Glovving cæleſtial-ſvveet vvith godlike grace, / Amid the Circle ſhines: but hope and fear / (Painful viciſſitude!) his boſom tear.1725, Homer, “Book I”, in [Elijah Fenton], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, page 22, lines 148–151
    • Ms. Schwartz, above, a former management consultant who studied the craft in France, makes several delicately tangy cheeses, including an ash-coated pyramid, a soft herb-flecked one and another with a tender, bloomy rind.2007 May 2, Florence Fabricant, “Lacking Alps, goats settle in Westchester”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
  2. Full of blooms; flowering.
    • a bloomy garden

Forms of bloomy

comparativemore bloomy
superlativemost bloomy

Origin of bloomy

By surface analysis, bloom + -y. Cognate with Dutch bloemig, German blumig, Swedish blommig.

Words formed from bloomy

Words that rhyme with bloomy

5 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about bloomy

What does bloomy mean?
Bloomy means having or resembling a bloom (as on fruit).
What part of speech is bloomy?
Bloomy is an adjective.

Words near bloomy in the dictionary

  1. Bloomsburyan
  2. bloomscrolling
  3. Bloomsday
  4. Bloomsdays
  5. bloomsome
  6. bloomy
  7. bloop
  8. blooped
  9. blooper
  10. blooper reel
  11. blooper reels

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bloomy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bloomy.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bloomy. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.