brooding
Definition
Adjective:
- Deeply or seriously thoughtful: Characterized by showing or involving deep, serious, and often melancholic thought or contemplation.
- Appearing dark, somber, or ominous: Having a quality that seems to cast a shadow of deep thought, sadness, or menace.
Noun:
- Persistent morbid meditation on a problem: The act of thinking long, deeply, and often unhappily about something.
- Sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body: The act of a bird incubating its eggs.
Usage Examples
Adjective:
- He had a brooding presence that filled the room with silence.
- The artist is known for his brooding landscapes, full of dark clouds and shadowy figures.
Noun:
- Her constant brooding over the past prevented her from moving forward.
- The hen's brooding was successful, and a dozen chicks hatched last week.
Advanced Usage
"A brooding silence": A silence that feels heavy with unspoken thought or threat.
- A brooding silence fell over the courtroom as the jury returned.
"To be in a brooding mood": To be in a state of deep, often sad, contemplation.
- After reading the letter, he was in a brooding mood for the rest of the day.
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 about what might have been.
- Brooder (noun): A person who broods; a heated enclosure for raising young poultry.
- Broody (adjective): (Of a hen) wanting to brood eggs; (of a person) thoughtful and unhappy.
Synonyms
- Adjective: Contemplative, pensive, meditative, melancholy, somber, ominous.
- Noun: Rumination, meditation, incubation.
Related Phrases
- "Brood over/on/about something": To think anxiously or gloomily about something for a long time.
- It's not healthy to brood over your mistakes.
Adjective
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deeply or seriously thoughtful;
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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
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Noun
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persistent morbid meditation on a problem
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sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body
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