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

1. noun. A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.
2. noun. The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in bloom.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. 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.
5. noun. The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
6. noun. A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
7. noun. A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom.
8. intransitive verb. To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower.
9. intransitive 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.
10. transitive verb. To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
11. transitive verb. To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
12. noun. 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.
13. noun. A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working.
14. noun. a powdery deposit on a surface

    Synonyms: efflorescence

15. noun. reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts

    Synonyms: blossom, flower

16. noun. the organic process of bearing flowers

    "you will stop all bloom if you let the flowers go to seed"

    Synonyms: blooming

17. noun. a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health

    Synonyms: blush, flush, rosiness

18. noun. the best time of youth
19. noun. the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

    Synonyms: blossom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, peak, prime

20. verb. produce or yield flowers

    "The cherry tree bloomed"

    Synonyms: blossom, flower

Synonyms

efflorescence, blossom, flower, blooming, blush, flush, rosiness, heyday, peak, prime

Common word forms

blooms, bloomed, bloomer, blooming, bloomless

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