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- DictionaryBrood·ing/ˈbro͞odiNG/
adjective
- 1. showing deep unhappiness of thought: "he stared with brooding eyes"
The meaning of BROODING is moodily or sullenly thoughtful or serious. How to use brooding in a sentence.
Brooding definition: preoccupied with depressing, morbid, or painful memories or thoughts. See examples of BROODING used in a sentence.
BROODING definition: 1. making you feel uncomfortable or worried, as if something bad is going to happen: 2. feeling…. Learn more.
When you're brooding, you might be depressed about something you just can't stop thinking about — like the lead character in Hamlet. Brooding can also mean you're being extremely thoughtful, contemplative, meditative, musing, reflective, or ruminative — those are all good things.
brood. n. 1. The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds hatched at one time and cared for together. 2. The children in one family. 1. a. To focus the attention on a subject persistently and moodily; worry: brooded about his future; brooded over the insult for several days.
If someone's expression or appearance is brooding, they look as if they are thinking deeply and seriously about something, especially something that is making them unhappy. [ literary ] She kissed him and gazed into his dark, brooding eyes.
Definition of brooding adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Brooding definition: (of a bird) <a>Broody</a>; incubating eggs by sitting on them.
If someone's expression or appearance is brooding, they look as if they are thinking deeply and seriously about something, especially something that is making them unhappy.
1. : the young of an animal or a family of young. especially : the young (as of a bird or insect) hatched or cared for at one time. a hen with her brood of chicks. 2. : a group having a common nature or origin. the entire brood of chronicle plays T. S. Eliot. 3. : the children of a family.
