brooding

Plural: broodings

Noun

• sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body
• persistent morbid meditation on a problem
• A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods.

Verb

• think moodily or anxiously about something
• hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
• be in a huff and display one's displeasure
• be in a huff; be silent or sullen
• sit on (eggs)
• present participle and gerund of brood

Adjective Satellite

• deeply or seriously thoughtful
  • "Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man"

Adj

• Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.
• Deeply or seriously thoughtful.

Examples

• A brooding hen can be aggressive.
• You like T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"? You must be so brooding and deep.

Synonyms

brood, broody, bulk large, contemplative, cover, dwell, grizzle, hatch, hover, incubate, incubation, loom, meditative, musing, pensive, pensiveness, pondering, pout, reflective, ruminative, stew, sulk

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