Definitions
Brooding - as a noun
Sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body
Brooding - as an adjective satellite
Deeply or seriously thoughtful
Example: "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"
Brooding - as a verb
To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
Example: "In some species of birds, both the mother and father brood the eggs."
To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.
Example: "Under the rock was a midshipman fish, brooding a mass of eggs."
(typically with about or over) to dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.
Example: "He sat brooding about the upcoming battle, fearing the outcome."
To be bred.
Brooding - as an adjective
(of a bird) broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.
Example: "A brooding hen can be aggressive."
Deeply or seriously thoughtful.
Example: "You like t. s. eliot's "the waste land"? you must be so brooding and deep."
Example Sentences
Word Game Points
BROODING has a SCRABBLE points total of 12.
BROODING has a WORDS WITH FRIENDS points total of 15.
BROODING has a WORDFEUD points total of 14.
