1. showing deep unhappy thoughts or worry
2. dark and threatening in appearance

1. the act of thinking deeply about something that troubles you
2. the act of a bird sitting on eggs to hatch them

Examples

• He sat in brooding silence after hearing the bad news.
• The brooding sky suggested a storm was coming.
• Her constant brooding about the past was making her depressed.
• The hen’s brooding lasted three weeks before the chicks hatched.
• His brooding expression worried his friends.
• She couldn’t stop her brooding over the failed exam.
• The brooding clouds gathered overhead.