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/əˈbluːm/ · adverb
(postpositive) In or into bloom; in a blooming state; having flower blooms unfolding..
[…] on summer nights when the tulips were abloom and the bees buzzing […]
[Krazy Kat:] How can you tell spring is here, Offissa Pupp? / [Officer Pupp:] By the flower abloom in yon pot.
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.
Use abloom when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Abloom means (postpositive) In or into bloom; in a blooming state; having flower blooms unfolding..
Common synonyms include mature, efflorescent, flowering.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] on summer nights when the tulips were abloom and the bees buzzing […]
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