adj
Meaning 1
Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- A brooding hen can be aggressive.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
brooding
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈbɹuːdɪŋ/
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rhymes with -uːdɪŋ
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adj
Meaning 2
Deeply or seriously thoughtful.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- You like T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"? You must be so brooding and deep.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
present participle and gerund of brood
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
deeply or seriously thoughtful;
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
persistent morbid meditation on a problem
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pensiveness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: melancholy
noun
Meaning 7
sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: incubation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Czech: přemýšlivý — deeply or seriously thoughtful
- Czech: hloubavý — deeply or seriously thoughtful
- Esperanto: moroza — deeply or seriously thoughtful
- French: méditatif — deeply or seriously thoughtful
- German: grüblerisch — deeply or seriously thoughtful
- German: grübelnd — deeply or seriously thoughtful
- Greek: μελαγχολικός (melancholikós) — deeply or seriously thoughtful
- Greek: κατηφής (katifís) — deeply or seriously thoughtful
- Hebrew: מהורהר mehurhar — deeply or seriously thoughtful
- Italian: malinconico — deeply or seriously thoughtful
- Italian: meditabondo — deeply or seriously thoughtful
- Italian: cupo — deeply or seriously thoughtful
- Portuguese: meditativo — deeply or seriously thoughtful
- Romanian: îngândurat — deeply or seriously thoughtful
- Spanish: meditativo — deeply or seriously thoughtful
- Spanish: cabizbajo — deeply or seriously thoughtful
- Esperanto: cerbumado — in a resentful manner
- Spanish: melancolía — in a resentful manner