brooding vs happy

brooding

adj
  • Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them. 

  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful. 

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

happy

adj
  • Favoring or inclined to use. 

  • Dexterous, ready, skilful. 

  • Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous. 

  • Content, willing, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something). 

  • Appropriate, apt, felicitous. 

  • Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious. 

  • Implying 'May you have a happy ~' or similar; used in phrases to wish someone happiness or good fortune at the time of a festival, celebration, or other event or activity. 

verb
  • Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up. 

  • Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven. 

noun
  • A happy event, thing, person, etc. 

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