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brooding
/bˈɹudɪŋ/ · 8 letters · 7 distinct letters
- adjective
deeply or seriously thoughtful
Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero', the persona of a brooding melancholy young man
- noun
sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body
- noun
persistent morbid meditation on a problem
- verb
think moodily or anxiously about something
- verb
hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
The terrible vision brooded over her all day long