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";.
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