brooding

(s) 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
contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative, broody,

Nouns

(n) sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body incubation,
(n) persistent morbid meditation on a problem pensiveness,

Synonyms

contemplative meditative musing pensive pondering reflective ruminative broody incubation pensiveness

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