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given to or marked by long, quiet thinking
- he spent a long, broody weekend trying to figure out where his relationship with his girlfriend was headed
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- philosophical
- (also philosophic)
- analytic
- (or analytical),
- logical,
- rational
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“Broody.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/broody. Accessed 27 Jan. 2022.
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The first known use of broody was in 1523
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