Definition of Leaden

1. Adjective. Darkened with overcast. "The sky was leaden and thick"

Exact synonyms: Dull
Similar to: Cloudy
Derivative terms: Dullness

2. Adjective. Made heavy or weighted down with weariness. "Weighted eyelids"
Exact synonyms: Weighted
Similar to: Heavy

3. Adjective. Made of lead. "A leaden weight"
Partainyms: Lead

4. Adjective. (of movement) slow and laborious. "Leaden steps"
Exact synonyms: Plodding
Similar to: Effortful

5. Adjective. Lacking lightness or liveliness. "A leaden conversation"
Exact synonyms: Heavy
Similar to: Dull
Derivative terms: Heaviness

Definition of Leaden

1. a. Made of lead; of the nature of lead; as, a leaden ball.

Definition of Leaden

1. Adjective. (dated) Made of lead. ¹

2. Adjective. Pertaining to or resembling lead; heavy, grey, sluggish. ¹

3. Adjective. Dull; darkened with overcast. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Leaden

1. to make dull or sluggish [v -ED, -ING, -S] : LEADENLY [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Leaden

lead tetroxide
lead the line
lead time
lead times
lead tree
lead up
lead up the garden path
lead vocalist
lead vocals
leadamalgam
leade
leaded
leaded bronze
leaded gasoline
leaded type
leaden (current term)
leadened
leadening
leadenly
leadenness
leadennesses
leadens
leader
leader board
leader boards
leader of the free world
leader peptide
leader sequence
leader sequences

Literary usage of Leaden

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane (1900)
"... fresh meadows; cool brooks—an existence of soft and eternal peace. Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds. ..."

2. Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity by Society of Antiquaries of London (1852)
"Ellis, on a leaden Tablet or Book Cover, with an Anglo-Saxon Inscription. Nov. 28, 1850. ... of a very curious leaden tablet in his lordship's collection. ..."

3. New Voices: An Introduction to Contemporary Poetry by Marguerite Ogden Bigelow Wilkinson (1922)
"THE leaden-EYED John Masefield Let not young souls be smothered out before They do quaint deeds and fully flaunt their pride. It is the world's one crime ..."

4. A survey of London by John Stow (1842)
"Next is a house called the leaden porch, lately divided into two tenements ; whereof one is a tavern, and then one other house for a merchant, ..."

5. A survey of London by John Stow (1842)
"Next is a house called the leaden porch, lately divided into two tenements ; whereof one is a tavern, and then one other house for a merchant, ..."

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