What is the difference between postpositive and abloom?
postpositive | abloom |
(grammar, of an adjective or other modifier) Placed after the word modified, either immediately after, as in two men abreast'', or as part of a complement, as in ''those two men are bad .
(postpositive) In or into bloom; in a blooming state; having flower blooms unfolding.
Blooming; covered in flowers.
(figuratively) Having something growing or grown.
* Gregory Hartswick, [Untitled], in , volume 27, number 3, January 1900, reprinted in, 1900, ''St. Nicholas volume 27, page 274 [http://books.google.com/books?id=QWUwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA274&dq=abloom]:
* 1902 , , Under the Trees , page62 [http://books.google.com/books?id=sNY8AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA62&dq=abloom]:
* 1998 , , chapter 15:
Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; exhibiting youth-like beauty.
* 1987 , Merrill J. Mattes, The Great Platte River Road , page 70:
* 1997 , , Jade , chapter 1:
As adjectives the difference between postpositive and abloom
is that postpositive is {{context|grammar|of an adjective or other modifier|lang=en}} placed after the word modified, either immediately after, as in two men abreast'', or as part of a complement, as in ''those two men are bad while abloom is blooming; covered in flowers {{defdate|mid 19th century}}.As a noun postpositive
is a postpositive modifier.As a adverb abloom is
(postpositive) in or into bloom; in a blooming state; having flower blooms unfolding {{defdate|mid 19th century}}{{reference-book | last =| first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | editor =brown, lesley | others = | title = the shorter oxford english dictionary | origdate = | origyear = 1933| origmonth = | url = | format = | accessdate = | accessyear = | accessmonth = | edition = 5th | date = | year =2003| month = | publisher =oxford university press | location =oxford, uk | language = | id = | doi = | isbn =978-0-19-860575-7 | lccn = | ol = | pages =5| chapter = | chapterurl = | quote =}}.postpositive
English
(Post-positive adjective)Adjective
(-)abloom
English
Adverb
(-)Adjective
(en adjective)- For Santa Claus comes / With reindeer and sleigh / To fill up the stockings on glad Christmas Day. / And there in the library / Stands a great tree / With gifts all abloom , most lovely to see!
- Who does not feel the passage of divine dreams over his troubled life when the infinite meadows of heaven are suddenly abloom with light?
- He was abloom with heat and anxiety. The sweat underneath his arms had turned into an oily slick.
- The Hollywood concept of clean-shaven, square-jawed young men and fragrant young ladies with cheeks abloom does not seem to square with the facts.
- When they returned, Jade's cheeks were abloom , her eyes alight with anticipation.
