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brooding

[ broo-ding ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

preoccupied with depressing, morbid, or painful memories or thoughts:
a brooding frame of mind.
cast in subdued light so as to convey a somewhat threatening atmosphere:
Dusk fell on the brooding hills.

First recorded in 1810–20 brooding fordef 1; 1640–50 brooding fordef 2; brood + -ing ²

Carell is good in a brooding, atmospheric movie but Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo are better.

In the Jockey ad, half of Jim Palmer's princely, brooding face is fully lighted, the other half is masked in shadow.

I had left a party early, brooding about why I felt so strongly about something that, ostensibly, had “nothing to do with me.”

Hollywood is gripped by an obsession so all-consuming that no blockbuster is safe from its brooding influence.

Nine times out of ten, it will conjure up an image of a brooding, sweaty, long-haired hunk.

Brooding over such thoughts as these, Alessandro went up into the canon one morning.

Reflection, introspection, brooding over mental and spiritual pain became impossible.

The girl looked round the ragged moor, brooding in the twilight, and half hesitated.

But, fortunately, they had scant time for repining, and there is nothing like active occupation to banish useless brooding.

He continues his walk in moody silence, brooding over his sense of injustice.

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