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English adjective: brooding | |||
| 1. | brooding deeply or seriously thoughtful | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative | ||
| Similar | thoughtful | ||
| Antonyms | thoughtless | ||
English noun: brooding | |||
| 1. | brooding (process) sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body | ||
| Synonyms | incubation | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | birth, birthing, giving birth, parturition | ||
| 2. | brooding (feeling) persistent morbid meditation on a problem | ||
| Synonyms | pensiveness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | melancholy | ||
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