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Lovely vs Blooming - What's the difference?

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Lovely is a related term of blooming.


As adjectives the difference between lovely and blooming

is that lovely is beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner or lovely can be worthy to be praised while blooming is opening in blossoms; flowering.

As nouns the difference between lovely and blooming

is that lovely is an attractive, lovely person, especially a (professional) beauty while blooming is the act by which something blooms.

As a verb blooming is

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As an adverb blooming is

bloody; bleeding; extremely.

lovely

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) lovely, luvelich, lufli, from (etyl) .

Adjective

(er)
  • Beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner.
    • It's a lovely day and the sun is shining.
    The music box plays a lovely melody.
    The castle garden enchants visitors with its lovely blooms.
  • * Robert of Brunne
    • Not one so fair of face, of speech so lovely .
  • Very nice, wonderful.
    • It would be lovely to have a little more money to spend.
  • (obsolete) Inspiring love or friendship; amiable.
  • * Shakespeare
    • a most lovely gentlemanlike man
  • (obsolete) Loving, filled with love.
  • * Chaucer
    • Many a lovely look on them he cast.
  • * Shakespeare
    • a lovely kiss
    Synonyms
    * lovable * lovesome * loving
    Derived terms
    * lovelily * loveliness
    Related terms
    * loverly * lovingly

    Noun

    (lovelies)
  • An attractive, lovely person, especially a (professional) beauty.
    • a calendar depicting young lovelies in bikinis
    • Goodbye, my lovely .
  • A lovely object. (rfex)
    • Synonyms
    * pretty, darling

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) lovely, loflik, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Worthy to be praised.

    • Anagrams

    *

    blooming

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Opening in blossoms; flowering.
  • Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor, vigour; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.
  • (British, euphemistic) bloody (in its vulgar senses ).

    • Synonyms

    * (opening in blossoms ): blossoming, flowering, in bloom, in blossom, in flower * (thriving in health, beauty and vigor/vigour ): blossoming, flourishing, thriving * (euphemism for "bloody" ): bally (British), blasted, blinking

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Bloody; bleeding; extremely.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
    • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=3 , passage=It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”}}

    Noun

  • The act by which something blooms.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 23, author=Jeremy Pearce, title=Anne McLaren, 80, Expert on the Embryo, Is Dead, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Such bloomings , Dr. McLaren continued, would require a critical audience, “so that they can be subject to scientific and ethical review, freely available for research and one day, perhaps, for treating diseases.” }}
  • (metallurgy) The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
  • (photography) A phenomenon where excessive light causes bright patches in a picture.

    • Related terms

    * antiblooming * bloomery — forge