Brood Synonyms and Antonyms

bro͝od
The offspring, as of an animal or a bird, for example, that are the result of one breeding season
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. litter
  2. offspring
  3. young
  4. flock
  5. progeniture
Antonyms:
  1. child
To hatch
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. cover
  2. incubate
  3. set
  4. hover
  5. hatch
  6. warm
  7. sit
  8. loom
  9. bulk-large
A group consisting of those descended directly from the same parents or ancestors
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. get
  2. issue
  3. offspring
  4. posterity
  5. progeny
  6. seed
To nurse one's troubles
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. dwell
  2. fret
  3. worry
  4. mope
  5. sulk
  6. meditate
  7. agonize
  8. ponder
  9. daydream
  10. eat-one-s-heart-out
  11. pout
  12. ruminate
  13. cark
  14. repine
  15. grieve
  16. cherish anxious thoughts
  17. consider
  18. muse
  19. breed
  20. mull-over
  21. children
  22. clutch
  23. deliberate
  24. contemplate
  25. dwell-on
  26. speculate
  27. family
  28. flock
  29. reflect
  30. fry
  31. hatch
  32. incubate
  33. issue
  34. chafe inwardly
  35. languish
  36. give oneself over to reflections
  37. litter
  38. be in a brown study
  39. meditate (morbidly)
  40. multitude
  41. nest
  42. offspring
  43. stew
  44. introspect
  45. progeny
  46. race
  47. sit
  48. weep
  49. young
Agonize over
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. grizzle
  2. stew
Antonyms:
  1. not worry

Words Related to Brood

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Brood Sentence Examples

  • Fear seemed to brood over the peoples of Western Europe.

  • Andersson in his Lake N'gami (pp. 2 5326 9) has given a lively account of the pursuit by himself and Francis Galton of a brood of ostriches, in the course of which the male bird feigned being wounded to distract their attention from his offspring.

  • A brood mare requires plenty of exercise at a slow pace and may work, except between shafts or on a road, till the day of foaling.

  • To these things used to y listen at the time, through the mercy of God vouchsafed to me, noting them down, not on paper but in my heart, and constantly by the grace of God brood over my accurate recollections."These are priceless words, for they establish a chain of tradition (John-Polycarp-Irenaeus) which is without a parallel in early church history.

  • A special department of state looked after his brood mares and stallions.

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