brooder
/'bru:də/
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Definition
- Noun:
- A heated enclosure for raising young animals, especially chicks: A brooder is a device or structure that provides controlled warmth, typically for hatching eggs or rearing young birds or other animals that require consistent temperature.
- A person who broods: A brooder is someone who thinks deeply, persistently, and often moodily or anxiously about something.
Examples of Usage
- Noun (Apparatus):
- The farmer moved the newly hatched chicks into the brooder to keep them warm.
- We need to check the temperature in the chicken brooder.
- Noun (Person):
- He's always been a brooder, worrying about every little detail.
- Don't be such a brooder; try to think about something positive.
Advanced Usage
- "To be a brooder": To have a personality characterized by deep, often melancholic, contemplation.
- In the novel, the protagonist is portrayed as a silent brooder, haunted by his past.
Variants and Related Words
- Brood (verb): To think deeply about something that makes one unhappy; to sit on eggs to hatch them.
- She would often brood over her mistakes.
- The hen broods on her eggs for weeks.
- Brooding (adjective): Showing deep, serious, and sometimes sad thought; ominously suggestive.
- He had a dark, brooding presence.
- The brooding clouds signaled an approaching storm.
Synonyms
- Incubator: A device for maintaining controlled conditions for hatching eggs or growing microorganisms. (Close synonym for the apparatus meaning).
- Ponderer: A person who thinks about something carefully. (Close synonym for the person meaning).
- Worrier: A person who worries excessively.
Related Phrases
- Brood over/on/about something: (Phrasal verb) To think anxiously or gloomily about something.
- It's not healthy to brood over things you cannot change.
Noun
- apparatus consisting of a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants