broody

Adjective

• 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
    

• physiologically ready to incubate eggs
  • a broody hen
    

Noun

• a domestic hen ready to brood

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  brooding , contemplative , meditative , musing , pensive , pondering , reflective , ruminative , brood hen , broody hen , setting hen , sitter