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unbrooding

unbrooding adjective: not brooding.

Adjective

unbrooding (comparative more unbrooding, superlative most unbrooding)

  1. Not brooding.
    • the unintrospective, unbrooding acceptance of grim realities1969, Bertrand Harris Bronson, The ballad as song, page 11
    • "Wally never broods about anything," says his wife, Jo, and his casual, unbrooding approach has seen some of the tenser astronauts through a few of the more anxious moments in the three years of Project Mercury's existence.2008, Robert Silverberg, First American Into Space, page 72

Forms of unbrooding

comparativemore unbrooding
superlativemost unbrooding

Origin of unbrooding

From un- + brooding.

Questions about unbrooding

What does unbrooding mean?
Unbrooding means not brooding.
What part of speech is unbrooding?
Unbrooding is an adjective.

Words near unbrooding in the dictionary

  1. unbrokered
  2. unbrominated
  3. unbronzed
  4. unbrooched
  5. unbrooded
  6. unbrooding
  7. unbroody
  8. unbrookable
  9. unbrookably
  10. unbrooked
  11. unbrother

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