brooding
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brooding
- /ˈbɹuːdɪŋ/
Rhymes with -uːdɪŋ
adjective more brooding · most brooding
- Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them. A brooding hen can be aggressive.
- Deeply or seriously thoughtful. You like T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"? You must be so brooding and deep.
verb
- present participle and gerund of brood
noun broodings
- A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods. The lyrics are different: gone are the dreamy, un-self-conscious proclamations of affection from the EP (which was reissued with additional tracks), replaced with vividly dark broodings, thick with doubt and fear.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: broody, incubation, oviparous, reflective, hatching, pensiveness, contemplative, pensive, meditative, ruminative, thoughtful, musing, pondering, nesting, moody, dreaming
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adj deeply or seriously thoughtful
| Español | meditativo, cabizbajo |
|---|---|
| Português | meditativo |
| Français | méditatif |
| Deutsch | grüblerisch, grübelnd |
| Italiano | malinconico, meditabondo, cupo |
| Ελληνικά | μελαγχολικός melancholikós, κατηφής katifís |
| Română | îngândurat |
| עברית | מהורהר mehurhar |
noun in a resentful manner
| Español | melancolía |
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