brooding
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6.2
- adjective
- /ˈbruːdɪŋ/
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pensativo
- Nigel, I love it when you get all dark and brooding.
He himself had a dark, brooding face with curly black hair.
- He himself had a dark, brooding face with curly black hair.
- It is funny and dark and weird and brooding.
- A common presentation with narcissistic people is that they carry the sullen, brooding, petulant anger with them all the time.
- They're always either dressed head to toe in black and Moody and brooding, or dressed like clowns and wildly eccentric.
- If you want some giggles, but you also want to read like a fantasy and a dark brooding romantic interest character, there you go.
- So there's Finn is the Dark Brooding Prince, Sebastian is the golden semi secretly evil Prince, and then there's Brie.
Examples
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When we first met, you seemed so elusive and brooding and intense.
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Batman is supposed to be dark, brooding, and intelligent.
Blog text (26) -
Hm, dark and brooding, I take it?
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No Resting Place is a brooding kind of book.
Academic text (1991) -
The bright colors melt into darker, more brooding images.
Fiction book (1996) -
I think he's going for brooding and dark, mysterious.
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From out of nowhere, Harry felt the dark, brooding sensation descend on him.
Fiction book (1997) -
He himself had a dark, brooding face with curly black hair.
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In the center of the moat stood a tall, brooding castle, elaborate with Gothic figurines and hand-carved paraphernalia.
Fiction book (1999) -
The old burial ground has a brooding, eerie atmosphere, even in midafternoon.
Synonyms
377
1.0
Feeling gloomy and sad
52
4.6
Serious and sad in feeling or mood
38
4.5
A person who thinks carefully about ideas or feelings
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5.9
Feeling or showing deep sadness
29
2.5
Feeling sad and without much hope
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4.1
Looking or feeling sad and quiet
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5.6
Thinking deeply and quietly in a calm way
15
6.0
Thinking deeply and quietly, often for a long time
15
7.9
Being quiet and unhappy and showing little interest in others
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7.0
Being quiet and deep in thought, often a little sad
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5.1
Having a worried, frightened, or troubled look
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7.2
Feeling deep, quiet sadness
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8.0
Being serious and quiet because of deep thought
1
5.6
Dark and cloudy, making a place feel gloomy
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7.9
Thinking deeply about something, often in a quiet way
Thinking carefully for a long time about something
Being quiet and thinking deeply about something
Dark and sad in a way that makes you feel unhappy
Antonyms
How Brooding
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Brooding comes from the old verb brood, which meant 'to sit on eggs' and is the same root as the words brood (a group of young) and breed. So a brooding look is like a bird quietly 'sitting' over dark thoughts—serious, quiet, and intense.