Brooding

1. Other examples

1.1. "he stared with brooding eyes"

1.2. She found him in the kitchen, brooding over a cup of coffee.

1.3. She was in a mood for brooding on the past.

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

2.1. incubation

3. deeply or seriously thoughtful

3.1. When you're dwelling on something, you're brooding about it — this can be thoughtful or morbidly obsessed.

3.2. Brooding can also mean you're being extremely thoughtful, contemplative, meditative, musing, reflective, or ruminative — those are all good things.

3.3. Thinking gloomily about something, ruminating anxiously or regretfully about something.

3.4. He’s tragic and comic, brooding one moment about the suicide of his father and death of his son and the next hungering for a piece of cheese or ogling a woman’s legs.

3.5. Synonyms: broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative

4. persistent morbid meditation on a problem

4.1. pensiveness