Brooding is used to describe an atmosphere or feeling that makes you feel anxious or slightly afraid.
[literary]
The same heavy, brooding silence descended on them.
Synonyms: gloomy, troubled, depressed, moody More Synonyms of brooding
2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
If someone's expression or appearance is brooding, they look as if they are thinking deeply and seriously about something, especially something that is making them unhappy.
[literary]
She kissed him and gazed into his dark, brooding eyes.
Examples of 'brooding' in a sentence
brooding
Either she slept or she had passed into another phase of brooding withdrawal.
Curzon, Clare THE QUEST FOR K (2004)
Freed of all immediate obligations, Daniel sat at his desk brooding.
Telushkin, Josef THE UNORTHODOX MURDER OF RABBI MOSS (2004)
He saw the jut of prominent cheekbones, the downward sweep of brooding eyebrows.
Amanda Hemingway THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE (2004)
In other languages
brooding
British English: brooding ADJECTIVE
Brooding is used to describe an atmosphere or feeling that makes you feel anxious or slightly afraid.
The same heavy, brooding silence descended on them.
American English: brooding
Brazilian Portuguese: solene
Chinese: 令人担忧的
European Spanish: inquietante
French: pesant
German: brütend
Italian: cupo
Japanese: 陰気な
Korean: 불길한
European Portuguese: solene
Latin American Spanish: inquietante
(adjective)
A heavy, brooding silence descended on them.
Synonyms
gloomy
He is gloomy about the fate of the economy.
troubled
depressed
He seemed somewhat depressed.
moody
Don't go all moody on me!
glum
What are you both looking so glum about?
dejected
Everyone has days when they feel dejected or down.
despondent
He often felt despondent after these meetings.
downcast
a glum, downcast expression
morose
She was morose, pale and reticent.
Additional synonyms
in the sense of dejected
Definition
in low spirits
Everyone has days when they feel dejected or down.