Dictionary Entry
bloom
bloom is a 5-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 20 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.
- 2noun
The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in bloom.
- 3noun
A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms; as, the bloom of youth.
- 4noun
The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow.
- 5noun
The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
- 6noun
A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
- 7noun
A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom.
- 8intransitive verb
To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower.
- 9intransitive verb
To be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigor; to show beauty and freshness, as of flowers; to give promise, as by or with flowers.
- 10transitive verb
To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
- 11transitive verb
To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
- 12noun
A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling.
- 13noun
A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working.
- 14noun
a powdery deposit on a surface
Synonyms
- 15noun
reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
- 16noun
the organic process of bearing flowers
"you will stop all bloom if you let the flowers go to seed"
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- 17noun
a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
- 18noun
the best time of youth
- 19noun
the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- 20verb
produce or yield flowers
"The cherry tree bloomed"
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