brooding vs fierce

brooding

adj
  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful. 

  • Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them. 

noun
  • A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods. 

fierce

adj
  • Of exceptional quality, exhibiting boldness or chutzpah. 

  • Excellent, very good. 

  • Exceedingly violent, severe, ferocious, cruel or savage. 

  • Resolute or strenuously active. 

  • Threatening in appearance or demeanor. 

adv
  • Extremely; very. 

How often have the words brooding and fierce occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )