adjective
- Deeply or seriously thoughtful.
- usage: "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";
- synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pondering, reflective, ruminative
- Showing pensive sadness.
- usage: "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"
- synonyms: wistful
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