Brooding - Definition

adj 1: 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";
[syn: brooding, broody, contemplative,
meditative, musing, pensive, pondering,
reflective, ruminative]
n 1: sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the
body [syn: brooding, incubation]
2: persistent morbid meditation on a problem [syn:
pensiveness, brooding]