unbrooding

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English

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Etymology

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un- +‎ brooding

Adjective

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unbrooding (comparative more unbrooding, superlative most unbrooding)

  1. Not brooding.
    • 1969, Bertrand Harris Bronson, The ballad as song, page 11:
      the unintrospective, unbrooding acceptance of grim realities
    • 2008, Robert Silverberg, First American Into Space, page 72:
      "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.