brooding
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
Similar word(s): thoughtful, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative
Sentences with brooding as an adjective:
- You like T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"? You must be so brooding and deep.
noun
1. sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body
Similar word(s): incubation
Definition categories: process, birth, birthing, parturition
2. persistent morbid meditation on a problem
Similar word(s): pensiveness
Definition categories: feeling, melancholy
verb
1. present participle of brood