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brood
[ brood ]
noun
- a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family of offspring or young.
- a breed, species, group, or kind:
The museum exhibited a brood of monumental sculptures.
Synonyms: , ,
verb (used with object)
- to sit upon (eggs) to hatch, as a bird; incubate.
- (of a bird) to warm, protect, or cover (young) with the wings or body.
- to think or worry persistently or moodily about; ponder:
He brooded the problem.
verb (used without object)
- to sit upon eggs to be hatched, as a bird.
- to dwell on a subject or to meditate with morbid persistence (usually followed by over or on ).
adjective
- kept for breeding:
a brood hen.
verb phrase
- to cover, loom, or seem to fill the atmosphere or scene:
The haunted house on the hill brooded above the village.
brood
/ ː /
noun
- a number of young animals, esp birds, produced at one hatching
- all the offspring in one family: often used jokingly or contemptuously
- a group of a particular kind; breed
- as modifier kept for breeding
a brood mare
verb
- of a bird
- to sit on or hatch (eggs)
- tr to cover (young birds) protectively with the wings
- whenintr, often foll by on, over or upon to ponder morbidly or persistently
Derived Forms
- ˈǴǻ徱Բ, nounadjective
- ˈǴǻ徱Բly, adverb
Other Word Forms
- Ǵǻl adjective
- ܲ·ǴǻĻ adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of brood1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
A great deal of care — the handmade, digital and location kind — has gone into realizing this earnest, archly amusing tale of a brooding teenage girl bonding with a threatened furry forest creature.
Stacey still has plans to increase their brood - but this time it is their animals.
His early roles in “Over the Edge,” “The Outsiders” and “Rumble Fish” may have played up his brooding nature, but don’t typecast him.
Like the rich families that vacation together in past seasons of “The White Lotus,” the North Carolina brood is a collection of insufferable personalities.
But they act out their past more than they brood over it.
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