brooding

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brooding

A young man sits alone in a quiet library, lost in brooding thought.

Definition

  1. 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.

  2. 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.
brooding

A young man sits alone in a quiet library, lost in brooding thought.

Adjective
  1. 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
Noun
  1. persistent morbid meditation on a problem
  2. sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body

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