Brooding and Listless

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Brooding adjective - Deeply or seriously thoughtful.

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Listless and brooding are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Listless" instead an adjective "Brooding".

Nearby Words: brood, broody, brooded, brooder

Listless adjective - Lacking bodily energy or motivation.

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Brooding and listless are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Brooding" instead an adjective "Listless".

Nearby Word: listlessly

In one tale where a smith had gotten back his son from The Fair Folk found the boy listless and brooding for a year and a day; when it was over, he criticized his father's work one day and began do smith work with skills he had learned in the hill.

Source: A Year and a Day

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