Definitions for brooding

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brooding brood·ing

Spelling: [broo-ding]

IPA: /ˈbru dɪŋ/

Brooding is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 211 anagrams from letters in brooding (bdginoor).

Definitions for brooding

noun

1. a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family of offspring or young.
2. a breed, species, group, or kind:

adjective

1. preoccupied with depressing, morbid, or painful memories or thoughts:
2. cast in subdued light so as to convey a somewhat threatening atmosphere:
3. kept for breeding:

Verb phrases

1. brood above/over, to cover, loom, or seem to fill the atmosphere or scene:

verb (used with object)

1. to sit upon (eggs) to hatch, as a bird; incubate.
2. (of a bird) to warm, protect, or cover (young) with the wings or body.
3. to think or worry persistently or moodily about; ponder:

verb (used without object)

1. to sit upon eggs to be hatched, as a bird.
2. to dwell on a subject or to meditate with morbid persistence (usually followed by over or on).

Origin of brooding

1810-20 for def 1; 1640-50 for def 2; brood + -ing²

Examples for brooding

Nine times out of ten, it will conjure up an image of a brooding, sweaty, long-haired hunk.

Christopher stood silent, as if brooding on what he had seen.

Hollywood is gripped by an obsession so all-consuming that no blockbuster is safe from its brooding influence.

In the Jockey ad, half of Jim Palmer's princely, brooding face is fully lighted, the other half is masked in shadow.

Kay said nothing, but a brooding anger began to fill his heart.

Carell is good in a brooding, atmospheric movie but Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo are better.

So she prepared for the possible future, not by brooding on it, but by doing the work of the present.

He sat with his head bent and his elbow on his knee; brooding, brooding, brooding.

I had left a party early, brooding about why I felt so strongly about something that, ostensibly, had “nothing to do with me.”

The birds, silent all in the brooding of night, rise ghostly to right and left.