Thesaurus / most brooding
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synonyms for most brooding
- annoyed
- contentious
- exasperated
- fractious
- petulant
- prickly
- resentful
- surly
- testy
- bearish
- brooding
- cantankerous
- carping
- choleric
- complaining
- crabbed
- cross
- crotchety
- disputatious
- dissatisfied
- dyspeptic
- easily offended
- fiery
- fretful
- fretting
- gloomy
- grouchy
- grumbling
- hasty
- hot
- huffy
- hypercritical
- ill-humored
- irascible
- moody
- morose
- out of humor
- oversensitive
- peevish
- plaintive
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- sensitive
- snappy
- snarling
- tense
- touchy
- pessimistic
- melancholy
- macabre
- unnatural
- ghoulish
- ghastly
- gruesome
- grim
- aberrant
- abnormal
- ailing
- dark
- deadly
- depressed
- despondent
- diseased
- dreadful
- frightful
- grisly
- hideous
- irascible
- malignant
- monstrous
- moody
- saturnine
- sick
- somber
- sullen
- unhealthy
- unsound
- unusual
- unwholesome
- horrid
- brooding
- infected
- funereal
- pensive
- portentous
- somber
- earnest
- thoughtful
- glum
- weighty
- sedate
- stern
- sober
- reflective
- intense
- dignified
- austere
- deliberate
- downbeat
- grave
- heavy
- matter of life and death
- moody
- no-nonsense
- staid
- brooding
- cold sober
- no fooling
- mean
- sour
- moody
- cheerless
- crabby
- depressed
- dismal
- dour
- fretful
- frowning
- gloomy
- glum
- gruff
- grumpy
- irritable
- morose
- obstinate
- ornery
- withdrawn
- brooding
- ill-humored
- moping
- pouting
- pouty
- sourpussed
- sulking
- reticent
- aloof
- dour
- laconic
- antisocial
- close
- cold
- curt
- distant
- dumb
- mum
- mute
- quiet
- reserved
- sententious
- silent
- sparing
- speechless
- tight-lipped
- withdrawn
- close-mouthed
- brooding
- clammed up
- dried-up
- unexpressive
- unforthcoming
- aloof
- antagonistic
- cold
- cool
- distant
- hostile
- inaccessible
- inhospitable
- introverted
- laid-back
- recessive
- reclusive
- reserved
- retiring
- secretive
- sensitive
- shy
- standoffish
- stuck-up
- timid
- unapproachable
- unbending
- uncommunicative
- uncongenial
- uppity
- withdrawn
- brooding
- easy-going
- nongregarious
- unforthcoming
- unneighborly
- unsocial
- aloof
- antisocial
- close
- close-mouthed
- cold
- curt
- distant
- dour
- dumb
- incommunicative
- laconic
- mum
- mute
- quiet
- reserved
- reticent
- sententious
- silent
- sparing
- speechless
- tight-lipped
- tightlipped
- uncommunicable
- uncommunicative
- withdrawn
- brooding
- clammed up
- dried-up
- unexpressive
- unforthcoming
- uncommunicative
- aloof
- antisocial
- close
- close-mouthed
- cold
- curt
- distant
- dour
- dumb
- incommunicable
- laconic
- mum
- mute
- quiet
- reserved
- reticent
- sententious
- silent
- sparing
- speechless
- tight-lipped
- tightlipped
- uncommunicable
- withdrawn
- brooding
- clammed up
- dried-up
- unexpressive
- unforthcoming
- mum
- reticent
- dour
- aloof
- silent
- antisocial
- close
- close-mouthed
- cold
- curt
- distant
- dumb
- incommunicable
- incommunicative
- laconic
- mute
- quiet
- reserved
- sententious
- sparing
- speechless
- tight-lipped
- uncommunicable
- uncommunicative
- withdrawn
- brooding
- clammed up
- dried-up
- unexpressive
- unforthcoming
- aloof
- antisocial
- close
- close-mouthed
- cold
- curt
- distant
- dour
- dumb
- incommunicable
- incommunicative
- laconic
- mum
- mute
- quiet
- reserved
- reticent
- sententious
- silent
- sparing
- speechless
- tight-lipped
- tightlipped
- uncommunicative
- withdrawn
- brooding
- clammed up
- dried-up
- unexpressive
- unforthcoming
- forlorn
- discouraged
- blue
- down
- bad
- low
- moody
- cheerless
- crestfallen
- dejected
- despondent
- disappointed
- disconsolate
- dispirited
- distressed
- doleful
- downhearted
- droopy
- dull
- gloomy
- glum
- heartsick
- listless
- low-spirited
- miserable
- morose
- oppressed
- sad
- troubled
- woebegone
- brooding
- bummed out
- cast down
- chapfallen
- daunted
- disheartened
- dismayed
- down in the dumps
- down-in-the-mouth
- dragged
- in pain
- mopey
- shot down
- singing the blues
- sunk
- weighed down
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- unsacred
- unimpressive
- ordinary
- funny
- light
- thoughtless
- happy
- usual
- insignificant
- laughing
- frivolous
- excited
- unimportant
- trivial
- unthoughtful
- ignorant
- lively
- joyful
- cheerful
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How to use most brooding in a sentence
Brooding over such thoughts as these, Alessandro went up into the canon one morning.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSONReflection, introspection, brooding over mental and spiritual pain became impossible.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODThe girl looked round the ragged moor, brooding in the twilight, and half hesitated.
UNCANNY TALESVARIOUSBut, fortunately, they had scant time for repining, and there is nothing like active occupation to banish useless brooding.
DOROTHY AT SKYRIEEVELYN RAYMONDHe continues his walk in moody silence, brooding over his sense of injustice.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTTBut to-day the brooding trouble came, and I was at my wits ends for a way out.
THE WEIGHT OF THE CROWNFRED M. WHITEThen she bade Gaston set wine for them, and when it was fetched the three of them drank in brooding, gloomy silence.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINII tried to laugh and talk away his brooding, but there was little use, his convictions were so strong.
MRS. FALCHION, COMPLETEGILBERT PARKERHis brooding brow and vacant eye spoke of a mind withdrawn from present surroundings.
THE CIRCULAR STUDYANNA KATHARINE GREENWhen he had left her she sat a long while by the window, brooding on the thing that had happened to her a second time.
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