brooding
part of speech
adjective (brooding); verb -ing form of brood (brood, broods, brooded, brooding); noun (brooding)
meaning for a pupil
1) Thinking for a long time about something that makes you sad, worried or angry. tree →
2) Looking dark, gloomy or threatening, like brooding clouds. tree →
3) (of birds) Sitting on eggs to keep them warm until they hatch. tree →
sense in the lessons
In stories it describes moody characters or a gloomy setting; in science it describes hens and other birds sitting on eggs. Phrases: "brooding over", "a brooding silence", "brooding hen".
examples
- He sat brooding over the lost match. tree →
- Dark, brooding clouds hung over the mountains. tree →
- The brooding hen would not leave her eggs. tree →
- Stop brooding and talk to someone about it. tree →
- The hero was quiet and brooding. tree →
- The castle looked brooding in the mist. tree →
- One day as Mongan sat in the sun, brooding lamentably on his fate, mac an Da’v came to him. tree →
note
From the verb "brood". A "brood" is also a noun for a group of baby birds. If you keep brooding about a worry, it helps to tell a trusted adult.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «brooding» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.