broodingly

English

Etymology

From brooding + -ly.

Adverb

broodingly (comparative more broodingly, superlative most broodingly)

  1. In a brooding manner.
    • 1951, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 4, in World so Wide [], New York, N.Y.: Random House, →OCLC, page 35:
      But he was broodingly unable to see even the most ivied tower as anything but a pile of stones till, inexplicably, the miracle of recovered hope and courage transformed him.
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