Synonyms:
brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative
Meaning: 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";
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
brooding, incubation
Meaning: sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body
Synonyms:
pensiveness, brooding
Meaning: persistent morbid meditation on a problem
Usage examples
Kane leaned forward, a terrible brooding threat growing in his cold eyes.
Then she laughed; but the sound of it in the silent, brooding house was shocking.
But she knew nothing of that, and the same one dreary day seemed ever brooding over her.
So everything but brooding had to be abandoned as too expensive, and he proceeded to study optics.
He could find no trace of anything, yet he felt a tense nervousness, as if trouble might be brooding.
Soon she began to act so strangely for a brooding bird that, when she flew, I went to feel in the nest.
Distance sanctifies both. Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness.
Now morose and brooding, now loudly profane, now laughing or now aloof, his errand in these unknown hills was plain.
Gradually he seemed to sink into brooding and did not resist when the coffin was lifted up and carried to the grave.
As he trilled forth his tender caressing strain, the heart of the listening woman translated as did that of the brooding bird.