brooding

Speech parts

1. brooding - Noun

2. brooding - Adjective

3. brooding - Verb

5. brooding - Adjective Satellite

of Brood

Source: Webster's dictionary

reflective incubation contemplative broody pondering musing ruminative pensive meditative pensiveness moody sulk dark concentration thinking

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conquering dominating carefree achieving carrying out coming through

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birth melancholy birthing parturition giving birth

Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day. Charles Evans Hughes

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time. David Guterson

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me. David Guterson

I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games. Magnus Carlsen

There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past. Indira Gandhi

Brooding may be very far from knowing. American Proverb

broodiest broodily broodiness broodingly broodingness broodless