late-blooming

[ leyt-bloo-ming ]

adjective

1. of or characteristic of a late bloomer:

   late-blooming brilliance.

2. late in coming about or showing full development:

   the country's late-blooming interest in soccer.

Word History and Origins

Origin of late-blooming¹

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

Had the security service picked her up, they would have determined she was a late-blooming artist of a particularly modern kind.

From The Daily Beast

Even now, when the chills of autumn had begun to blow through its bowers, it was over-clambered with late-blooming flowers.

From Project Gutenberg

The golden-rod, always late blooming on the Cape, bordered the path with gorgeous yellow.

From Project Gutenberg

With the arrogance of youth they laughed hilariously at the late blooming romance.

From Project Gutenberg

A late-blooming ratama tree dispensed from its yellow petals a sweet and persistent odour.

From Project Gutenberg

Once we pass a farmhouse with late-blooming yellow roses climbing over the stone posts at the farm entrance.

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