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Definitions for Brooding

[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.
[3] a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family of offspring or young.
[4] a breed, species, group, or kind: The museum exhibited a brood of monumental sculptures.
[5] to sit upon (eggs) to hatch, as a bird; incubate.
[6] (of a bird) to warm, protect, or cover (young) with the wings or body.
[7] to think or worry persistently or moodily about; ponder: He brooded the problem.
[8] to sit upon eggs to be hatched, as a bird.
[9] to dwell on a subject or to meditate with morbid persistence (usually followed by over or on ).
[10] kept for breeding: a brood hen.
[11] brood above /over , to cover, loom, or seem to fill the atmosphere or scene: The haunted house on the hill brooded above the village.
[12] a number of young animals, esp birds, produced at one hatching
[13] all the offspring in one family: often used jokingly or contemptuously
[14] a group of a particular kind; breed
[15] (as modifier) kept for breeding a brood mare
[16] (of a bird) to sit on or hatch (eggs) (tr) to cover (young birds) protectively with the wings
[17] (when intr , often foll by on, over or upon ) to ponder morbidly or persistently

Words related to Brooding

daydream, grieve, meditate, sulk, mope, ruminate, fret, gloom, ponder, consider, deliberate, sigh, repine, despond, muse, reflect, lament, speculate, dream, bleed

Words nearby Brooding

brood bud, brood parasite, brood parasitism, brood pouch, brooder, brooding, broodmare, broody, brook, brook farm, brook park

Origin of Brooding

before 1000; Middle English; Old English brōd; cognate with Dutch broed, German Brut. See breed

Words that may be confused with Brooding

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, broodbrewed, brood

Other words from Brooding

brood·ing·ly , adverb
non·brood·ing , adjective, noun
un·brood·ing , adjective
brood·less , adjective
un·brood·ed , adjective

Word origin for Brooding

Old English brōd ; related to Middle High German bruot , Dutch broed ; see breed

Synonyms for Brooding

daydream, fret, grieve, meditate, mope, ruminate, sulk, bleed, consider, deliberate, despond, dream, gloom, lament, languish, muse, ponder, reflect, repine, sigh, speculate, worry, be in brown study, chafe inwardly, dwell upon, eat one's heart out, mull over, stew over, sweat out, sweat over, think about, think upon