Associations to the word «Brooding»
Noun
- Dark
- Chick
- Silent
- Egg
- Nest
- Silence
- Mood
- Brow
- Staring
- Feeding
- Reproduction
- Eye
- Stillness
- Female
- Bird
- Face
- Frog
- Gloom
- Reverie
- Menace
- Loneliness
- Hen
- Quiet
- Sac
- Salamander
- Solitude
- Contemplation
- Spp
- Desolation
- Wrong
- Sixth
- Toad
- Abyss
- Grievance
- Scowl
- Vapour
- Sphinx
- Thinking
- Misery
- Hush
- Magnificence
- Pouch
- Blot
- Heavy
- Humming
- Persona
- Sadness
- Misfortune
- Gaiety
- Laying
- Musing
- Vast
- Sorrow
- Malice
Adjective
Wiktionary
BROODING, adjective. (of a bird) Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.
BROODING, adjective. Deeply or seriously thoughtful.
BROODING, verb. Present participle of brood
BROODING, noun. A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods.
Dictionary definition
BROODING, noun. Sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body.
BROODING, noun. Persistent morbid meditation on a problem.
BROODING, adjective. 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";.
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.