Brown Study

Definition: Brown Study

1. A state of deep absorption or thoughtfulness.

Specialty Definition: Brown Study

Domain	Definition
Literature	Brown Study Absence of mind; apparent thought, but real vacuity. The corresponding French expression explains it- sombre réverie. Sombre and brun both mean sad, melancholy, gloomy, dull. "Invention flags, his brain grows muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study." Congreve: An Impossible Thing. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Slang in 1811	BROWN STUDY. Said of one absent, in a reverie, or thoughtful. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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Synonyms within Context: Brown Study

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Inattention	Abstraction; absence of mind, absorption of mind; preoccupation, distraction, reverie, brown study, deep musing, fit of abstraction.
Thought	Abstract thought, abstraction contemplation, musing; brown study; (inattention); reverie, Platonism; depth of thought, workings of the mind, thoughts, inmost thoughts; self-counsel self-communing, self-consultation; philosophy of the Absolute, philosophy of the Academy, philosophy of the Garden, philosophy of the lyceum, philosophy of the Porch.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Familiar Quotations: Brown Study

Author	Quotation
John Lyly	It seems to me (said she) that you are in some brown study.
William Congreve	Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.
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Expression: Brown Study

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Brown Study

Modern Translation: Brown Study

Language		Translations for "brown study"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		magába mélyedve (in a brown study), elgondolkozva (in a brown study, thoughtfully). (various references)

Pig Latin		ownbray udystay

Romanian		visare (day-dreaming, dream, dreaming, reverie), reverie (day dream, dreaming, reverie), meditaţie (coaching, introversion, meditation, musing, speculation). (various references)

Russian		глубокое раздумье, мрачное настроение. (various references)

Spanish		ensimismamiento (absorption, reverie, self-absorption, trance). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự trầm ngâm (contemplativeness, meditation, musing, rumination), sự mơ mộng (day-dream, reverie). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Brown Study

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-d-n-o-r-s-t-u-w-y"
	-1 letter: downburst.
	-2 letters: rubdowns.
	-3 letters: burtons, bywords, obtunds, rubdown.
	-4 letters: bounds, bounty, bourns, browns, browny, brunts, bundts, burton, byword, donuts, doubts, drowns, drowsy, obtund, robust, rotund, rounds, snouty, stound, stoury, stroud, strown, sturdy, suborn, sunbow, sundry, swound, turbos, untrod, wounds.
	-5 letters: bonds, bonus, borts, borty, bosun, bound, bourn, bousy, bouts, brosy, brown, brows, brunt, bunds, bundt.
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Expression using "brown study": be in a brown study. Additional references.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
brown study	2
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