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broody
adjective as in dejected
adjective as in gloomy
adjective as in tenebrific
Weak matches
- black
- bleak
- blue
- blue funk
- chapfallen
- cheerless
- crabbed
- crestfallen
- dark
- dejected
- depressed
- desolate
- despondent
- disconsolate
- dismal
- dispirited
- dour
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- downhearted
- dragged
- dreary
- forlorn
- glum
- in low spirits
- in the dumps
- joyless
- low
- melancholy
- mirthless
- miserable
- moody
- moping
- mopish
- morose
- mournful
- oppressed
- pessimistic
- sad
- saturnine
- solemn
- somber
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- ugly
- unhappy
- weary
- woebegone
- woeful
Example Sentences
When she finally got broody she was given seventeen eggs and allowed to settle down to the task of incubating Christmas dinners.
A broody blackbird 'chinked' anxiously, and a pigeon wheeled aside with a 'swoof.'
The chickens may be saved either by removing them to other broody hens or by putting them in a flannel wrapping in a warm place.
Because the broody hen makes a clucking noise, she is sometimes called a clucking hen.
There is no way of forcing or inducing hens to become broody before they would do so of their own accord.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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