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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Sitting, as a bird on her eggs: as, a brooding hen.
  2. Warming: as, “the brooding heat,”
  3. Pondering; thinking deeply; disposed to ponder or think deeply: as, a brooding disposition.
  4. Settled; rooted; fixed in the heart: a figurative use derived from the steadfastness with which a bird sits on her eggs.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. of a bird Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.
  2. adj. Deeply or seriously thoughtful.
  3. v. present participle of brood.
  4. n. A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. worried and thinking long and intensely, especially about a particular problem.
  2. adj. good at incubating eggs, especially of a fowl kept for that purpose.
  3. n. the process of sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body; -- mostly used of birds.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. deeply or seriously thoughtful
  2. n. sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body
  3. n. persistent morbid meditation on a problem

Examples

  • “Then he stood there and stared after it for a long moment, his expression brooding.”

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  • “Still, he speculated wistfully that his newfound cheerfulness was not his authentic self, which he described as brooding and creative.”

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  • “But his brooding is interrupted when they arrive at the alumnus’s well-appointed home and discover his would-be interviewer dead.”

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  • “Just as it begins in brooding shadows, so does the feature end practically that way in a lonely house on a cliff, where the identity of killers is revealed.”

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  • “Stella Vision, at the advertising news site Shots, reports on the latest, The Pilot, a World War I mini-story filmed appropriately in brooding monochrome.”

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  • “He does not spend his time in brooding on the fact that he is a Roman Catholic, and he is not particularly conscious of being different from his non-Catholic neighbours.”

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  • “At such times he was remarkably taciturn, and would sit in brooding silence or go almost immediately to bed.”

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  • “Christopher Monsour: Hamlet’s brooding is a model for the image of the artist or philosopher; and from that point on, fictional characters seem to overhear themselves speaking, and introspect in a way that they hadn’t before.”

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  • “When the strike drags on they’ll turn back to silent films and, we all know, that walking around looking hot and brooding is what Keanu does best.”

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  • “In Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing, the brilliant and iconoclastic Charles Bowden continues the quest he first set out on in Blood Orchid (1995) and Blues for Cannibals (2002) to explore, as Jim Harrison says "our soul history, the germinal material, vast and brooding, that is always left out of more orthodox - all of them - books about America.”

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synonyms (13)

Words with the same meaning

  1. broody
  2. contemplative
  1. meditative
  2. musing
  1. pensive
  2. pondering
  1. reflective
  2. ruminative
  1. gloomy
  2. morose
  1. brood
  2. hatching
  1. incubation

equivalents (1)

Other words for ‘brooding’

  1. thoughtful

hypernyms (5)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. giving birth
  1. birth
  1. parturition
  1. birthing
  1. melancholy

rhymes (14)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. alluding
  2. colluding
  1. concluding
  2. deluding
  1. denuding
  2. eluding
  1. excluding
  2. extruding
  1. exuding
  2. feuding
  1. including
  2. intruding
  1. precluding
  2. protruding

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. broodingly
  2. sitting
  3. incubation
  4. cluck
  5. clucking
  1. obsession
  2. brood
  3. mono-ideism
  4. nest-pan
  5. broody
  1. cleck
  2. disquietude
  3. Byron
  4. sullen
  5. sitter
  1. abrood
  2. saturnine
  3. glowering
  4. moody
  5. morose
  1. sour
  2. dark
  3. dour
  4. glum
  5. melancholia
  1. subjective
  2. anger
  3. brooding
  4. hover

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