brooding

[US]/'brudɪŋ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. deep in thought; lingering
n. incubating

Example Sentences

brooding over life's injustices.

The hen is brooding her eggs.

He was then brooding what to do.

he stared with brooding eyes.

he emanated a powerful brooding air.

It is not advisable just to sit there brooding about the unpleasant bygones.

brooding about his decline in popularity;

a state of brooding disquietude about a colleague's success.

What It Is: Post-dumpage, you're going to find yourself with a lot of time—time that's often spent getting misty over the past and brooding over what went wrong.

Real-world Examples

Usually they are either brooding or talking a great deal about themselves.

Source: New Horizons College English Reading and Writing Course (Second Edition)

Dickens’s fiction brims with anticipation, through brooding settings, plot twists, and mysteries.

Source: TED-Ed (video version)

Is that a bad thing? Would you prefer me to be brooding and tortured?

Source: The Vampire Diaries Season 1

It's the brooding man from the Coffee Spoon.

Source: BBC Listening Collection October 2017

You're just more quiet and brooding than usual.

Source: Person of Interest Season 5

And she could only stare speechless at his brooding face.

Source: Gone with the Wind

" I know, " he sighed, brooding. " You should tell Charlie, though."

Source: Twilight: Eclipse

Always so brooding, so tortured.A girl wants Romeo, not Hamlet.

Source: Gossip Girl Selected

He was brooding and handsome and obsessed with an uptight yet sexy redhead.

Source: Modern Family - Season 10

She alights with the others on a featureless plain under a vast, brooding sky.

Source: TED Talks (Video Version) Bilingual Selection

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