brooding vs forthright

brooding

adj
  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful. 

  • Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them. 

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

forthright

adj
  • Straightforward; not evasive; candid and direct. 

  • Markedly simple. 

  • Fixed; settled; decided. 

  • Frank, outspoken. 

adv
  • Swiftly. 

  • At once, forthwith. 

  • Expressly, frankly, unhesitatingly. 

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