brooding
About 1.61 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.
A brooding hen can be aggressive.
- adjective 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 A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods.
Similar words
broody incubation oviparous reflective hatching pensiveness contemplative pensive meditative ruminative
Often followed by
over on and in about silence upon eyes of
Word family
broodingly
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