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brooding
[broo-ding]
adjective
preoccupied with depressing, morbid, or painful memories or thoughts.
a brooding frame of mind.
cast in subdued light so as to convey a somewhat threatening atmosphere.
Dusk fell on the brooding hills.
Other Word Forms
- broodingly adverb
- nonbrooding adjective
- unbrooding adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of brooding1
Example Sentences
“I could just hear their angelic voices in the mix while I’m brooding in a corner getting ready.”
Shh is one of a number of gothic pop songs, sung by brooding young men with interesting hair.
Hartnett was the brooding bad boy in movies like “The Faculty” and “The Virgin Suicides,” which rocketed him to stardom in the late ’90s.
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.
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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