brooding

Other forms of brooding

plural

broodings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about brooding

What does brooding mean?

brooding means "sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brooding?

brooding has 2 syllables: broo-ding. The stress falls on "broo". In IPA it is /ˈbɹudɪŋ/.

What is another word for brooding?

Close synonyms include incubation, pensiveness, broody, contemplative, meditative. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brooding a common word?

brooding is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.