Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sitting, as a bird on her eggs: as, a brooding hen.
- Warming: as, “the brooding heat,”
- Pondering; thinking deeply; disposed to ponder or think deeply: as, a brooding disposition.
- Settled; rooted; fixed in the heart: a figurative use derived from the steadfastness with which a bird sits on her eggs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective worried and thinking long and intensely, especially about a particular problem.
- noun the process of sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body; -- mostly used of birds.
- adjective good at incubating eggs, especially of a fowl kept for that purpose.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a bird
Broody ; incubating eggs by sitting on them. - adjective Deeply or seriously
thoughtful . - verb Present participle of
brood . - noun A spell of brooding; the time when someone
broods .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective deeply or seriously thoughtful
- noun sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body
- noun persistent morbid meditation on a problem
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Examples
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Then he stood there and stared after it for a long moment, his expression brooding.
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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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At such times he was remarkably taciturn, and would sit in brooding silence or go almost immediately to bed.
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But his brooding is interrupted when they arrive at the alumnuss 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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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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