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What is the adjective for brooded?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb brood which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

brooding

(of a bird) Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.
Deeply or seriously thoughtful.
Synonyms:

gloomy, dark, forbidding, foreboding, grim, ominous, sinister, threatening, dangerous, direful, glowering, hostile, intimidatory, menacing, troubled, doomy, heavy, inauspicious, bodeful, loury, minacious, ill-boding, sullen, moody, frowning, glum, surly, morose, scowling, dour, bitter, sulky, inhospitable, sour, cheerless, crabby, fierce, grumpy, stern, aggrieved, indignant, aggressive, cantankerous, fiery, temperamental, aggravated, ferocious, angry, severe, intimidating … more

Examples:

“To many, mangroves present a dark, brooding environment, not easily penetrated and full of horrors such as sandflies, mosquitoes, and crocodiles.”

“Lord Seaforth had no such distraction from his brooding thoughts, no such refuge from his own society.”

“Daddy's in a brooding mood, so we crack our crabs quietly and suck out the meat without hardly making a sound.”

broodsome

Characterised or marked by brooding

broodingest

superlative form of brooding: most brooding

brooded

simple past tense and past participle of brood
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