brooding
noun
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body
Types & categories
- parturition hypernym
Related & opposite
- incubate derivation
Sense 2 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
Related & opposite
- meditativeness derivation
- reflectiveness derivation
- pensiveness derivation
- muse derivation
- meditate derivation
- thoughtful similar to
Sense 3 noun
persistent morbid meditation on a problem
Types & categories
- melancholy hypernym
Related & opposite
- musing derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | incubate |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | parturition |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | meditativeness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | reflectiveness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | pensiveness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | muse |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | meditate |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | thoughtful |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | musing |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | melancholy |