abloom with joy
- idiom
- Archaic
:
floreciente de alegría
- The children's faces were abloom with joy during the festival parade.
Examples
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She was abloom with joy as she accepted her award on stage.
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He returned home abloom with joy after hearing the good news.
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She was abloom with joy at her wedding.
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The children's faces were abloom with joy during the festival.
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He returned home abloom with joy after hearing the good news.
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She was abloom with joy as she accepted her award on stage.
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The children's faces were abloom with joy during the festival parade.
Synonyms
70
1.0
Feeling or showing great happiness
69
4.5
Feeling very happy and excited
62
1.8
Feeling very happy and showing it
15
5.0
Feeling very happy because of a success or a good event
12
1.2
Very happy and excited in a playful way
10
2.1
Feeling very happy and excited about something good
Smiling very widely and looking clearly happy
Very excited and happy in an obvious way
Feeling very happy and excited
Feeling very happy and excited
Antonyms
How Joyful
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally built from 'abloom' (in a state of flowering) + 'with' + 'joy', so the image of 'flowering with joy' directly conveys 'visibly radiating happiness' and is predictably derived from the parts. This floral metaphor is cross-linguistically common and—although slightly literary—should be understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Abloom with joy uses the image of flowers opening. To be abloom is like a flower in bloom, bright and open, so you can see happiness on someone's face, and that's why it means 'full of happiness'.