What is another word for broody?
Pronunciation:
[ bɹˈuːdi], [ bɹˈuːdi], [ b_ɹ_ˈuː_d_i]
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Synonyms for Broody:
adj.
• all (adjective) • dejected (adjective)- downcast,
- morose,
- down in dumps,
- Dragged,
- doleful,
- shot down,
- down in mouth,
- miserable,
- discouraged,
- melancholy,
- heavyhearted,
- moody,
- black,
- despondent,
- gloomy,
- downhearted,
- wretched,
- dismal,
- low-spirited,
- abject,
- droopy,
- all torn up,
- in the pits,
- sad,
- crestfallen,
- drooping,
- bummed out,
- disheartened,
- cheerless,
- dashed,
- bleak,
- down in the dumps,
- sagging,
- Mopish,
- down,
- mopey,
- atrabilious,
- dispirited,
- glum,
- clouded,
- low,
- Dampened,
- woebegone,
- down in the mouth,
- hurting,
- disconsolate,
- spiritless,
- cast down.
- blue funk,
- surly,
- forlorn,
- in the dumps,
- depressed,
- oppressed,
- desolate,
- unhappy,
- crabbed,
- solemn,
- sulky,
- weary,
- mournful,
- saturnine,
- joyless,
- pessimistic,
- woeful,
- sullen,
- dour,
- ugly,
- Moping.
n.
• brood hen (noun) • brooding (noun) • broody (noun) • Other relevant words: (noun)Other synonyms:
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- new-laid.
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- egg,
- incubation period.
- gist,
- unconsolable,
- distract,
- panic-struck,
- temperamental,
- hound,
- unvoiced,
- crossing,
- swerve,
- stubborn,
- pout,
- free,
- detriment,
- thin out,
- sole,
- roll,
- metacyesis,
- low gear,
- nauseated,
- endpoint,
- african-american,
- end,
- swage,
- wise,
- tough,
- hateful,
- crushed,
- brooder,
- extend,
- acidulate,
- wait,
- rich,
- incommode,
- upturned,
- dwell,
- meritless,
- turn,
- verbalize,
- fateful,
- played out,
- clogged,
- h2o,
- alternate,
- loom,
- spunk,
- knockout,
- act,
- anticipant,
- fatigued,
- demoralise,
- regurgitate,
- downwards,
- centre,
- nut,
- grave,
- fowl,
- run,
- lowering,
- mingy,
- clubhouse,
- blue angel,
- scared,
- inglorious,
- instill,
- negro,
- water system,
- give notice,
- gynandromorph,
- slew,
- impart,
- disobliging,
- bang up,
- bathetic,
- wear out,
- testy,
- condition,
- have young,
- fertility rate,
- aseptic,
- cloud-covered,
- birdie,
- done for,
- reflexion,
- queer,
- hot up,
- veer,
- dismiss,
- shell,
- misanthropical,
- raspberry,
- distich,
- jade,
- pitch-dark,
- plaintive,
- eye,
- time of year,
- waxwork,
- foresighted,
- screen out,
- hermaphroditic,
- depopulate,
- sweep,
- grip,
- vile,
- heel,
- humiliation,
- disgorge,
- cum,
- vapours,
- number,
- thin,
- gelded,
- unyielding,
- miserly,
- mawkish,
- minute,
- quail,
- entail,
- sunless,
- intemperate,
- vapors,
- cut of meat,
- ditch,
- pale,
- make,
- sack,
- impudent,
- awkward,
- set-apart,
- choleric,
- transverse,
- sieve,
- convey,
- laic,
- woefulness,
- schmalzy,
- abbreviate,
- unseasoned,
- grow,
- rebellious,
- great,
- sura,
- sincere,
- fertilized egg,
- underprice,
- survival of the fittest,
- flagging,
- footer,
- upbringing,
- dejectedly,
- dim,
- distressing,
- result,
- hold tight,
- egg cell,
- mean value,
- thinned,
- put,
- overbold,
- bilk,
- misanthropic,
- stinger,
- aristocratic,
- androgyne,
- wickedness,
- come,
- injure,
- farseeing,
- down feather,
- sort out,
- shoot down,
- horrible,
- mortify,
- frank,
- drab,
- procreative,
- class,
- nipper,
- shrink,
- married person,
- baseball club,
- tire out,
- well-chosen,
- have a bun in the oven,
- ignite,
- difficulty,
- stew,
- disheartenment,
- measly,
- ill-affected,
- artificial intelligence,
- tumultuous,
- untune,
- drawn,
- disjunct,
- turnover,
- rugged,
- prehend,
- perturbation,
- hold close,
- persuade,
- give the sack,
- rubbish dump,
- cease,
- thwarted,
- tailor,
- atrocious,
- pack,
- hotness,
- kernel,
- ball,
- nerve,
- copulate,
- whiney,
- immature,
- assort,
- discomfited,
- derangement,
- cernuous,
- crazy,
- fertilise,
- wonky,
- scurvy,
- heedful,
- wench,
- click,
- consternation,
- unhinged,
- golfclub,
- birdwatch,
- foster,
- tyke,
- innate,
- lodge,
- plunge,
- cad,
- make out,
- knock down,
- anguish,
- boo,
- bring on,
- no-count,
- scrap,
- overwrought,
- rearing,
- nonsexual,
- center,
- ticker,
- slashed,
- dilute,
- modest,
- model,
- oral fissure,
- prolific,
- displace,
- puke,
- separate,
- ornery,
- sass,
- fire up,
- heavily,
- trail,
- talk,
- discomfit,
- dumpsite,
- edit out,
- problem,
- transmit,
- detached,
- cutting off,
- brokenhearted,
- harm,
- gild,
- fussy,
- concentrated,
- uninspired,
- give chase,
- conceptus,
- tearful,
- regorge,
- naughty,
- small,
- huffish,
- moo,
- birth rate,
- separable,
- contain,
- channel,
- germinal,
- stark,
- skip,
- productive,
- unrepentant,
- incubation,
- disturb,
- embryonal,
- bright,
- parthenogeny,
- tike,
- impoverished,
- blacken,
- sappy,
- nodding,
- throw up,
- moderate,
- foreshorten,
- wasteyard,
- inimical,
- post,
- order,
- firedog,
- spite,
- clutches,
- suffering,
- bother,
- fosterage,
- middle,
- genteelness,
- final result,
- natality,
- sulk,
- absentminded,
- lounger,
- tight,
- sterileness,
- night,
- evil,
- scummy,
- dame,
- nestling,
- nub,
- pour down,
- chopfallen,
- dyad,
- meat,
- epicene,
- undercut,
- heat energy,
- stray,
- new,
- heating plant,
- intend,
- amnio,
- chase after,
- rickety,
- mark,
- scotch,
- stockpile,
- cringe,
- fostering,
- pile,
- prospicient,
- impertinent,
- rancid,
- put out,
- scathe,
- itchy,
- put off,
- pop,
- hold,
- turned,
- perturb,
- umbilical,
- mo,
- listless,
- opposite,
- average,
- black-market,
- joseph black,
- alone,
- hanker,
- mettle,
- youth,
- virgin birth,
- hoot,
- exhausted,
- grueling,
- malefic,
- overthrow,
- big,
- detent,
- conceptualize,
- fresh,
- dolorous,
- pitiful,
- foresightful,
- blackened,
- span,
- slushy,
- shock,
- appal,
- marrow,
- deletion,
- disregard,
- nine,
- cut through,
- trembling,
- geminate,
- smartness,
- expiration,
- wayward,
- hotdog,
- persistent,
- bollock,
- shameful,
- haggard,
- irrigate,
- sway,
- ghastly,
- sit down,
- sperm cell,
- peevish,
- cut off,
- body of water,
- testicle,
- fine-tune,
- flake,
- weeping,
- green goods,
- drear,
- ill,
- lamentably,
- oestrus,
- honk,
- paltry,
- doll,
- drink down,
- pitiable,
- appall,
- maimed,
- cover,
- alarm,
- pathetic,
- infelicitous,
- spicy,
- lay waste to,
- low-pitched,
- gravid,
- macabre,
- deputy,
- inconvenience,
- staff vine,
- imply,
- purge,
- baby-walker,
- replication,
- rave,
- anticipative,
- position,
- demented,
- jabber,
- lip,
- voiceless,
- sickish,
- creaky,
- originative,
- believe,
- valley,
- piddle,
- dispirit,
- tired of,
- sorrowing,
- warmheartedness,
- smuggled,
- grizzle,
- ball club,
- untried,
- get,
- saucy,
- solitary,
- shuttle,
- panicked,
- downward,
- oral cavity,
- pre-eclampsia,
- hard put,
- pedestrian,
- training,
- kind,
- issue,
- ballad,
- prang up,
- develop,
- absent,
- slue,
- gloomful,
- conduct,
- heavy,
- waste,
- recollective,
- cark,
- estrus,
- chase,
- at rest,
- cut down,
- busted,
- asepsis,
- vernal,
- mollify,
- depress,
- low-down,
- dog-iron,
- partner off,
- shrubby bittersweet,
- snub,
- first,
- twilight,
- acquit,
- disquieted,
- benighted,
- blackness,
- deplorably,
- hybrid,
- spent,
- wild blue yonder,
- skittish,
- overturn,
- tump over,
- variety,
- black bile,
- smutty,
- water supply,
- lipo-lutin,
- sit around,
- inflame,
- traverse,
- intersect,
- dog-tired,
- ejaculate,
- restless,
- gamey,
- obscure,
- contraband,
- second,
- crotchety,
- demolish,
- await,
- earnest,
- ripped,
- fatal,
- harden,
- dribble,
- frankfurter,
- offspring,
- backbreaking,
- large,
- dillydallier,
- replacement,
- fatigue,
- scratchy,
- fuss,
- dark-skinned,
- moon about,
- cling to,
- worry,
- raise,
- replica,
- turbulent,
- transversal,
- discompose,
- retch,
- pertinacious,
- darkness,
- warmth,
- go after,
- unhopeful,
- nightclub,
- disorder,
- take,
- express,
- acidity,
- foregone,
- defeated,
- ballock,
- unappeasable,
- twilit,
- spontaneous abortion,
- inexorable,
- vomit up,
- enceinte,
- cabaret,
- whiny,
- toilsome,
- toss off,
- short-tempered,
- bulk large,
- passion,
- sheer,
- horrifying,
- paying attention,
- beggarly,
- fleck,
- think of,
- sick of,
- fecundity,
- motherliness,
- yoke,
- spooky,
- snort,
- shortened,
- confused,
- saturate,
- speak,
- languid,
- push down,
- farm,
- profane,
- place,
- shadow,
- racy,
- hybridise,
- meanspirited,
- down pat,
- turn out,
- nauseous,
- baseball swing,
- get hold of,
- tartness,
- hybridisation,
- mad,
- deport,
- melancholiac,
- couplet,
- glad,
- base,
- asleep,
- cast,
- disturbance,
- bounder,
- tag,
- gentle,
- panic-stricken,
- baby-sit,
- kill,
- slash,
- twin,
- trash dump,
- blue-blooded,
- fagged,
- send away,
- soupy,
- foiled,
- unregenerate,
- disruptive,
- nurture,
- with child,
- devour,
- sober,
- relentless,
- finish,
- drippy,
- negroid,
- ride,
- pee,
- terminal figure,
- taken up,
- bad-tempered,
- rationalize,
- stressed,
- end point,
- dyspeptic,
- no-account,
- untested,
- embryotic,
- gestate,
- create,
- hiss,
- hybridization,
- sluggish,
- frightful,
- soppy,
- woolgathering,
- low-toned,
- meek,
- get down,
- ignominious,
- offend,
- golf club,
- cussed,
- eggs,
- wear,
- groove,
- orchis,
- calamitous,
- laborious,
- brainsick,
- transport,
- disconcert,
- spot,
- pair off,
- injury,
- essence,
- pensiveness,
- no-good,
- maternal quality,
- departed,
- gamy,
- crossbreeding,
- ask,
- upchuck,
- richness,
- think,
- farsighted,
- night club,
- shit,
- green groceries,
- calfskin,
- antisepsis,
- blue air,
- ectopic gestation,
- routine,
- blurred,
- screen,
- hover,
- demoralised,
- cutting,
- lackadaisical,
- devastate,
- pith,
- fed up,
- felicitous,
- golf-club,
- suffer,
- mortification,
- deck,
- schmaltzy,
- seed,
- fidgety,
- bypast,
- flinch,
- better half,
- classify,
- bittersweet nightshade,
- pendulous,
- waste-yard,
- execrable,
- mastered,
- misfortunate,
- fag out,
- pose,
- mordant,
- trimmed,
- trim,
- broken in,
- testis,
- severely,
- excision,
- geld,
- ill at ease,
- languorous,
- give the axe,
- wiener,
- live-bearing,
- bloody-minded,
- garden truck,
- babysit,
- puritanic,
- acquire,
- fellow,
- thwart,
- razzing,
- raddled,
- twosome,
- wince,
- hybridize,
- only,
- bygone,
- liverish,
- innocent,
- punishing,
- acetify,
- chuck,
- cranky,
- raising,
- land,
- recoil,
- spirit,
- damage,
- humble,
- disoblige,
- seize,
- terrified,
- infuse,
- furrow,
- can,
- mown,
- grisly,
- malcontent,
- peckish,
- trauma,
- outcome,
- razz,
- significant,
- antsy,
- cut across,
- scatty,
- climbing bittersweet,
- moment,
- education,
- opprobrious,
- unhinge,
- intoxicated,
- offended,
- nightspot,
- ending,
- wan,
- signify,
- kaput,
- tense up,
- stranded,
- voguish,
- mope around,
- horrify,
- overturned,
- reduce,
- unimaginative,
- sedate,
- spermatozoan,
- stand for,
- meaning,
- full term,
- separated,
- downwardly,
- prune,
- aflutter,
- inebriated,
- scourge,
- dolourous,
- regretful,
- unbalanced,
- spue,
- tenebrious,
- mushy,
- tail,
- dear,
- dotted,
- depression,
- seat,
- twain,
- severe,
- expiry,
- disordered,
- warmness,
- stop,
- mourning,
- get over,
- shivering,
- ache,
- tenebrous,
- smarting,
- garbage dump,
- get across,
- emasculated,
- thoughtfulness,
- clutch bag,
- coldcock,
- frustrate,
- traumatise,
- bilious,
- be sick,
- raw,
- core,
- longsighted,
- melanise,
- ill-tempered,
- slice,
- reproductive memory,
- turn over,
- hack,
- megrims,
- sentimental,
- gush,
- demoralize,
- disturbed,
- sow in,
- depleted,
- clench,
- deject,
- blueing,
- hot dog,
- unquiet,
- heating system,
- baffle,
- ail,
- neural,
- affection,
- bastardly,
- fertilized ovum,
- repose,
- rationalise,
- pump,
- lightlessness,
- tattered,
- worn out,
- anticipate,
- interbreeding,
- batch,
- bluish,
- switch off,
- sum,
- floor,
- three-toed sloth,
- have in mind,
- unhappily,
- blueish,
- procreation,
- bad,
- bring about,
- severable,
- total darkness,
- hot-tempered,
- poor,
- aweary,
- put down,
- first gear,
- refine,
- give rise,
- nitty-gritty,
- unkept,
- uncongenial,
- bring forth,
- despicable,
- contemplation,
- require,
- unbeloved,
- epicene person,
- risque,
- quick-tempered,
- conclusion,
- brace,
- wienerwurst,
- uncheerful,
- wobbly,
- look,
- resultant,
- swart,
- laden,
- teammate,
- disastrous,
- eccyesis,
- amytal,
- urine,
- generative,
- discommode,
- intersex,
- tenacious,
- zimmer,
- off,
- hatch,
- wiped out,
- selection,
- apart,
- unrealized,
- flighty,
- barf,
- pull down,
- surd,
- bite,
- hassle,
- perverse,
- consider,
- panicky,
- feed,
- puritanical,
- humiliate,
- posture,
- trim back,
- duad,
- pall,
- lone,
- haunted,
- melanize,
- gash,
- bemused,
- chic,
- stern,
- ignore,
- dying,
- thwartwise,
- acidify,
- adverse,
- temper,
- crown of thorns,
- edit,
- dysphoric,
- ravage,
- unworthy,
- piece,
- piss,
- strong,
- blasphemous,
- spurt,
- weewee,
- attentive,
- work,
- abase,
- swing,
- wear down,
- arduous,
- threatening,
- irritable,
- survival,
- checkmate,
- force out,
- infertility,
- go through,
- spirt,
- sow,
- fraught,
- wound,
- couple,
- minor,
- tincture,
- deceased,
- facts of life,
- climbing nightshade,
- riotous,
- blue devil,
- fondness,
- tiddler,
- weenie,
- trim down,
- small fry,
- bear,
- nighttime,
- unrelenting,
- bereaved,
- sinister,
- false,
- weakened,
- blue devils,
- gestation period,
- deadly nightshade,
- bruise,
- hardly,
- hard-pressed,
- derelict,
- sassy,
- patrician,
- heat up,
- difficult,
- agamogenesis,
- inwardness,
- worn,
- worthless,
- deplorable,
- crisscross,
- interbreed,
- contract,
- motherhood,
- andiron,
- wake,
- obsessed,
- fry,
- first mate,
- bringing up,
- stillbirth,
- wasteland,
- fag,
- chip,
- moony,
- gruelling,
- dingy,
- engender,
- blueness,
- wear upon,
- aristocratical,
- tetchy,
- slimy,
- youngster,
- match,
- disgusted,
- fat,
- pettish,
- fire,
- lamentable,
- break up,
- burn,
- foil,
- kid,
- quarantined,
- distress,
- trend,
- fractious,
- humiliated,
- birthrate,
- destitute,
- reflection,
- uninventive,
- conceptualise,
- bring out,
- cold shoulder,
- affectionateness,
- glooming,
- rant,
- tire,
- consume,
- yearn,
- bosom,
- good-for-nothing,
- unrealised,
- curve,
- behave,
- cut back,
- knock over,
- hotheaded,
- mouth off,
- outwear,
- pud,
- snatch,
- terminus,
- discouragement,
- baby,
- off-key,
- multiply,
- turn off,
- verbalise,
- false bittersweet,
- techy,
- serious-minded,
- high temperature,
- rabbit on,
- stir up,
- frump,
- stock,
- lost,
- abridge,
- worn-out,
- bring down,
- rumination,
- morsel,
- overcast,
- spew,
- hybridizing,
- nettlesome,
- semisweet,
- go-cart,
- dogged,
- forsake,
- firmly,
- blue sky,
- pawl,
- society,
- unforgiving,
- reverse,
- depressing,
- kitschy,
- unfrequented,
- grasp,
- pitch-black,
- good-for-naught,
- rankness,
- flavor,
- pass over,
- clutch pedal,
- youthful,
- malign,
- tip over,
- marooned,
- hokey,
- obdurate,
- queasy,
- back talk,
- ferment,
- inconvenience oneself,
- disgraceful,
- bowl over,
- spouse,
- woefully,
- swarthy,
- dilly-dallier,
- polish,
- belt down,
- natural,
- desert,
- squinch,
- mouthpiece,
- shuttlecock,
- trouble oneself,
- pitch blackness,
- secular,
- bludgeon,
- guild,
- comport,
- clasp,
- spoil,
- intemperately,
- piteous,
- pain,
- woody nightshade,
- bolt down,
- precarious,
- disquiet,
- querulous,
- retentive,
- poisonous nightshade,
- run-down,
- maternalism,
- sassing,
- elia,
- drunk,
- utter,
- seminal fluid,
- sourness,
- dallier,
- heating,
- heart and soul,
- set,
- track,
- shorten,
- pallid,
- flea-bitten,
- vomit,
- skirt,
- fecundate,
- in a bad way,
- bootleg,
- self-destructive,
- humbled,
- bluing,
- crossbreed,
- juicy,
- decrepit,
- chick,
- substance,
- forbidding,
- lowly,
- at peace,
- grief-stricken,
- knock up,
- backtalk,
- tenderness,
- prolificacy,
- strings,
- blackguard,
- devoid,
- unfertile,
- domestic dog,
- duet,
- duo,
- cat,
- gruesome,
- partner,
- form,
- washed-out,
- strain,
- bare,
- flavour,
- write out,
- sorting,
- shaver,
- abandon,
- social club,
- apprehensive,
- moon around,
- gentility.
How to use "Broody" in context?
The word "broody" is associated with a negative connotation. It means that a person is upset, impatient, or violent because they are not getting their own way. This often leads to disputes, arguments, and even violence. Broody people are seen as unhappy, unfulfilled, and grumpy. However, there is another side to the broody personality. They can be very protective and loyal to those around them. They can be obsessively caring and thoughtful towards others. The key is to understand what motivates their brooding and to be understanding and forgiving.
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- Synonyms:
- accessory, contributive, contributory, helpful, leading, promotive, tending, useful, calculated to produce, productive of.