Blasted vs. Blooming — What's the Difference?

Blasted is the first play by the British author Sarah Kane. It was first performed in 1995 at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in London.

Used as an intensive

Used as an intensive

Present participle of bloom

(Slang) Drunk or intoxicated.

Opening in blossoms; flowering.

Blighted, withered, or shriveled.

Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor, vigour; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.

Simple past tense and past participle of blast

Bloody; bleeding; extremely.

Subjected to an explosion.

Bloody; bleeding; extremely.

Subjected to violent gusts of wind; storm-damaged.

The act by which something blooms.

(colloquial) Accursed; damned.

(metallurgy) The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.

Whose branches bear no leaves; leafless.

(photography) A phenomenon where excessive light causes bright patches in a picture.

(slang) Intoxicated, drunk.

The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.

(colloquial) Damned; extremely.

Opening in blossoms; flowering.

Blighted; withered.

Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.

Confounded; accursed; detestable.

The organic process of bearing flowers;

Rent open by an explosive.

(used of persons) informal intensifiers;

Made uninhabitable;

Expletives used informally as intensifiers;