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(adj) meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative, contemplative, broody
deeply or seriously thoughtful
Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man;
(noun) pensiveness
persistent morbid meditation on a problem
(noun) incubation
sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body