leaden
About 0.67 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Of or related to the metal lead, particularly
The sky was dark and overcast, a leaden pall producing a deep gloom.
- adjective Made of lead.
- adjective Resembling the color of lead, metallic or dark gray; dim, overcast.
The sky was dark and overcast, a leaden pall producing a deep gloom.
- adjective Resembling the density of lead, heavy.
- adjective Resembling the ponderousness of lead, sluggish.
- verb To make or become dull or overcast.
Similar words
gray grey cloudy weighted heavy effortful plodding dull inert leaded
Often followed by
sky weight and coffin pipes hue skies feet clouds
Word family
leadenly leadenness leadennesses
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