Words and phrases that have a meaning related to brooding: (159 results)
Often used in the same context:
moody, melancholy, melancholic, morose, sullen, introspective, saturnine, broodingly, mopey, dreamy, pensive, moony, taciturn, elegiac, unexpressive, glowering, impassivity, ruefulness, lugubrious, mournful, inexpressive, haunting, affectless, comfortless, ruminative, contemplative, scowling, melancholia, sepulchral, enigmatic, noirish, languor, puppyish, affectingly, languid, wistful, emoting, sensualist, lumpish, poeticism, winsomeness, brassiness, broody, byronic, boyishness, unaffecting, protagonist, doomy, antihero, quavery, blankness, solipsist, dostoyevskian, sardonic, hangdog, doleful, dashingly, overbearingly, sunniness, ethereal, stolid, gruffness, archness, languorous, appealingly, smolderingly, mellow, plangent, careworn, unaffectedly, handsomeness, introverted, fey, impishness, soulful, misanthropy, tenebrous, darkly, undemonstrative, invigoratingly, diffident, misanthropic, lambent, monkish, swaggering, incantatory, winningly, spacy, loner, wraithlike, beguiling, pathos, foreboding, oblomov, archetypally, dolorous, leonine, sultriness, whispery, punkish, unrepressed, nihilistic, pondering, rumination, musings, reverie, ruminations, musing, grieving, questionings, cogitation, meditation, striving, contemplation, fretting, journeying, toil, watching, disquietude, gnawing, introspection, serene, calm, calmer, drowsy, restful, spooky, misty, somnolent, uneasy, gloomy, hazy, tormented, unseeing, despondent, kinder, uncommonly, unquiet
More general:
birth, birthing, giving birth, parturition
Synonyms:
Also try:brood, hatching, incubation, meditative, oviparous, pensiveness, reflective, thoughtful
— Nouns for brooding: presence, period, spirit, eyes, night, season, shadow, quality, time, mind, mood, more...
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