Brooding vs. Pensive — What's the Difference?

The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds hatched at one time and cared for together.

Pensive (February 5, 1941 – May 20, 1949) was a bright chestnut Thoroughbred racehorse that in 1944 won the first two legs of the U.S. Triple Crown. Pensive also began only the second sire line "hat trick" in the Kentucky Derby, as his son Ponder won the 1949 Derby, and Ponder's son Needles won the 1956 edition.

The children in one family.

Engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought

To focus the attention on a subject persistently and moodily; worry

Engaged in deep and serious thought.

To be depressed

Showing or expressing deep, often melancholy thought

To sit on or hatch eggs.

Having the appearance of deep, often melancholic, thinking.

To protect developing eggs or young.

Looking thoughtful, especially from sadness.

To hover envelopingly; hang

Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.

To think about (something) persistently or moodily

Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers.

To sit on or hatch (eggs).

Persistently or morbidly thoughtful

To protect (developing eggs or young).

Showing pensive sadness;

Kept for breeding

(of a bird) Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.

Deeply or seriously thoughtful.

Present participle of brood

A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods.

Worried and thinking long and intensely, especially about a particular problem.

Good at incubating eggs, especially of a fowl kept for that purpose; as, a brooding hen.

The process of sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body; - mostly used of birds.

Sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body

Persistent morbid meditation on a problem

Persistently or morbidly thoughtful