brooding

adjective

  1. 1

    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

noun

  1. 1

    persistent morbid meditation on a problem

  2. 2

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

Synonyms

Also useful for “brooding”:Unscrambler