brooding
| a. | 1. | worried and thinking long and intensely, especially about a particular problem. |
| 1. | good at incubating eggs, especially of a fowl kept for that purpose; | |
| n. | 1. | the process of sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body; - mostly used of birds. |
| Noun | 1. |  brooding - sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the bodySynonyms: incubation |
| 2. | brooding - persistent morbid meditation on a problem Synonyms: pensiveness | |
| Adj. | 1. | brooding - persistently or morbidly thoughtful |