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brooding

[broo-ding]

adjective

  1. preoccupied with depressing, morbid, or painful memories or thoughts.

    a brooding frame of mind.

  2. cast in subdued light so as to convey a somewhat threatening atmosphere.

    Dusk fell on the brooding hills.



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Other Word Forms

  • broodingly adverb
  • nonbrooding adjective
  • unbrooding adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of brooding1

First recorded in 1810–20 brooding for def. 1; 1640–50 brooding for def. 2; brood + -ing 2
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“I could just hear their angelic voices in the mix while I’m brooding in a corner getting ready.”

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Shh is one of a number of gothic pop songs, sung by brooding young men with interesting hair.

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Hartnett was the brooding bad boy in movies like “The Faculty” and “The Virgin Suicides,” which rocketed him to stardom in the late ’90s.

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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.

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His early roles in “Over the Edge,” “The Outsiders” and “Rumble Fish” may have played up his brooding nature, but don’t typecast him.

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