List of antonyms from "brogue" to antonyms from "browbeat"


Discover our 193 antonyms available for the terms "brooder, brook, brokenness, brotherhood" and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the antonyms associated with it.

Definition of the day : « broody »

  • As in tenebrific : adj gloomy
  • As in dejected : adj depressed, blue
  • As in gloomy : adj feeling down, blue
Example sentences :
  • There were six, but two of them were broody and went off to steal their nests.
  • Extract from : « The Lost Wagon » by James Arthur Kjelgaard
  • Broody hens cannot always be obtained at the time they are wanted.
  • Extract from : « Our Domestic Birds » by John H. Robinson
  • She was so broody that she actually insisted on sitting on a Liebig pot.
  • Extract from : « The Third Class at Miss Kaye's » by Angela Brazil
  • Also a prefix, denoting augmentation: a. superior; high; broody: ad.
  • Extract from : « A Pocket Dictionary » by William Richards
  • A broody blackbird 'chinked' anxiously, and a pigeon wheeled aside with a 'swoof.'
  • Extract from : « Lives of the Fur Folk » by M. D. Haviland
  • When she shows that she is broody and has stopped laying she should be given a sitting of eggs which will consist of 10 or 11.
  • Extract from : « Ducks and Geese » by Harry M. Lamon
  • Toulouse and Chinese are perhaps the least broody of the breeds and are sometimes termed non-broody.
  • Extract from : « Ducks and Geese » by Harry M. Lamon
  • The chickens may be saved either by removing them to other broody hens or by putting them in a flannel wrapping in a warm place.
  • Extract from : « Our Domestic Birds » by John H. Robinson
  • Because the broody hen makes a clucking noise, she is sometimes called a clucking hen.
  • Extract from : « Our Domestic Birds » by John H. Robinson
  • When a hen is broody, take her off the nest the first night and put her into the new place with an artificial egg or two.
  • Extract from : « The Library of Work and Play: Outdoor Work » by Mary Rogers Miller