Synonyms for brooding
brood·ing

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1. brooding, incubationnoun

   sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body

   Synonyms:
   incubation, pensiveness

   Antonyms:
   thoughtless

2. pensiveness, broodingadjective

   persistent morbid meditation on a problem

   Synonyms:
   meditativeness, pensiveness, contemplativeness, incubation

   Antonyms:
   thoughtless

3. brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminativeadjective

   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";

   Synonyms:
   contemplative, meditative, pensive, wistful, broody, reflective, ruminative, musing, pondering

   Antonyms:
   thoughtless

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1. Arnold Bennett:

   The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

2. Shon Mehta:

   No brooding over old worries, let's start a new series. Forget about all the negativities, think of new possibilities. Here to conquering a new frontier, that's all I wish in the upcoming new year.

3. Joseph Rickaby:

   A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.