Idiom
brown study
Meaning
A melancholy mood accompanied by deep thought; a moody daydream.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He sat in a brown study, staring blankly at the wall.”
“After the bad news, she fell into a brown study and ignored everyone in the room.”
“Lost in a profound brown study, the scholar remained entirely unaware of the bustling activity occurring around him.”
Examples
simple
“He sat in a brown study, staring blankly at the wall.”
contextual
“After the bad news, she fell into a brown study and ignored everyone in the room.”
complex
“Lost in a profound brown study, the scholar remained entirely unaware of the bustling activity occurring around him.”
Origin
From obsolete brown (“gloomy”) and study.
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