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brooding
adjective as in downcast
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- bummed out
- cast down
- chapfallen
- cheerless
- crestfallen
- daunted
- dejected
- despondent
- disappointed
- disconsolate
- disheartened
- dismayed
- dispirited
- distressed
- doleful
- down in the dumps
- down-in-the-mouth
- downhearted
- dragged
- droopy
- dull
- gloomy
- glum
- heartsick
- in pain
- listless
- low-spirited
- miserable
- mopey
- morose
- oppressed
- sad
- shot down
- singing the blues
- sunk
- troubled
- weighed down
- woebegone
adjective as in incommunicable
adjective as in incommunicative
adjective as in irritable
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- bearish
- cantankerous
- carping
- choleric
- complaining
- crabbed
- cross
- crotchety
- disputatious
- dissatisfied
- dyspeptic
- easily offended
- fiery
- fretful
- fretting
- gloomy
- grouchy
- grumbling
- hasty
- hot
- huffy
- hypercritical
- ill-humored
- irascible
- moody
- morose
- out of humor
- oversensitive
- peevish
- plaintive
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- sensitive
- snappy
- snarling
- tense
- touchy
adjective as in morbid
adjective as in solemn
adjective as in sulky
adjective as in taciturn
adjective as in tightlipped
adjective as in uncommunicable
adjective as in unsociable
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noun as in abstraction
noun as in introspection
noun as in dwelling
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Example Sentences
The Henry Murray Stage upstairs at the Matrix Theatre has been transformed into an adolescent hideaway, where music and literature are the only salves for alienated brooding.
He regularly signed on for dark, challenging roles and inhabited broken, brooding characters.
“When you think of goth, you think of brooding. But we’re all just people who love the music. We’re embracing those musical roots but we add our own flavor to it.”
The Guardian called him the "master of the brooding silence", but Stamp's acting proved to have range as well as depth.
It’s brooding, a little sticky and best eaten late at night in your slip dress.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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