bloom

Examples

• All

• The artist implemented a bloom effect to enhance the sun's rays in the digital painting.

• In the video game, the bloom added a dreamy atmosphere to the bright scenes.

• The crystal splits the beam into a bloom of new rays.

• Sunshine bass farmers can estimate how long it takes to get a rotifer bloom in fry culture ponds, which helps them stock at the optimal time.

  Academic text (2004)

• The puzzle remained, however: no organic molecules could remain viable across the tens of thousands of years that the cysts had typically lain buried between blooms.

  Fiction book (1993)

Synonyms

H

haloing

vsbloom

• Specialized

7.8

A bright or colored ring that appears around objects in a photo after editing

is a softer diffuse bleed of light into surroundings instead of a sharp ring

Antonyms

D

to darken

63 3.3

Make or become less bright, for example a room

D

to dull

33 3.4

Cause something to become less sharp, strong or bright

Idioms

I

in bloom

13 2.3

Having flowers open on a plant or tree

B

bloom is off the rose

• Informal

1 9.2

The first excitement has gone

Compounds

F

full bloom

6 3.0

A plant with its flowers fully open and very beautiful

B

bloom of youth

1 6.3

A time when a young person looks and feels their best

C

cobalt bloom

• Specialized

9.9

A reddish mineral people use to make blue glass that is found in mine veins

V

vernal bloom

6.1

A large area covered with flowers in spring

How Intense

flare

• Specialized

5 7.4

bloom

• Specialized

1 7.9

to halo

2 5.5

dim glow

1 2.6

Surface Forms

Etymology