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Radiant vs Blooming - What's the difference?

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Radiant is a related term of blooming.


As adjectives the difference between radiant and blooming

is that radiant is radiating light and/or heat while blooming is opening in blossoms; flowering.

As nouns the difference between radiant and blooming

is that radiant is a point source from which radiation is emitted 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.

radiant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Radiating light and/or heat.
  • :
  • Emitted as radiation.
  • Beaming with vivacity and happiness.
  • :
  • *
  • *:His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ “Phil?!  You?!   Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow?!” recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
  • Emitting or proceeding as if from a center.
  • (lb) Giving off rays; said of a bearing.
  • :
  • (lb) Having a ray-like appearance, like the large marginal flowers of certain umbelliferous plants; said also of the cluster which has such marginal flowers.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A point source from which radiation is emitted.
  • (astronomy) The apparent origin, in the night sky, of a meteor shower.
  • A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve.

    • Anagrams

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    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