Defenition of the word brooding
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Defenition of the word brooding
- Incubating eggs by sitting on them.
- good at incubating eggs especially a fowl kept for that purpose; "a brood hen"
- persistently or morbidly thoughtful
- sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body
- persistent morbid meditation on a problem
- deeply or seriously thoughtful
Synonyms for the word brooding
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- brood
- broody
- contemplative
- dark
- gloomy
- hatching
- incubation
- meditative
- menacing
- musing
- ominous
- pensive
- pensiveness
- pondering
- reflective
- ruminative
- threatening
Similar words in the brooding
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- brooding
- oviparous
- thoughtful
Hypernyms for the word brooding
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- birth
- birthing
- giving birth
- melancholy
- parturition
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