brooding vs gloomy

brooding

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

adj
  • Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them. 

  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful. 

gloomy

noun
  • Someone or something that is gloomy or pessimistic. 

adj
  • Suffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected. 

  • Not very illuminated; dim because of darkness, especially when appearing depressing or frightening. 

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