Associations to the word «Brooding»

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.
William Butler Yeats