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leaden

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lead·en  (ldn)
adj.
1. Made of or containing lead.
2.
a. Heavy and inert.
b. Listless; sluggish.
3. Lacking liveliness or sparkle; dull: a leaden conversation.
4. Downcast; depressed: leaden spirits.
5. Dull, dark gray in color: drizzle from a leaden sky.

leaden·ly adv.
leaden·ness n.

leaden [ˈlɛdən]
adj
1. heavy and inert
2. laboured or sluggish leaden steps
3. gloomy, spiritless, or lifeless
4. (Chemistry) made partly or wholly of lead
5. of a dull greyish colour a leaden sky
leadenly  adv
leadenness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.leaden - darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "the sky was leaden and thick"
cloudy - full of or covered with clouds; "cloudy skies"
2.leadenleaden - made heavy or weighted down with weariness; "his leaden arms"; "weighted eyelids"
heavy - marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness; "a heavy heart"; "a heavy schedule"; "heavy news"; "a heavy silence"; "heavy eyelids"
3.leaden - made of lead; "a leaden weight"
4.leaden - (of movement) slow and laborious; "leaden steps"
effortful - requiring great physical effort
5.leaden - lacking lightness or liveliness; "heavy humor"; "a leaden conversation"
dull - lacking in liveliness or animation; "he was so dull at parties"; "a dull political campaign"; "a large dull impassive man"; "dull days with nothing to do"; "how dull and dreary the world is"; "fell back into one of her dull moods"

leaden
adjective
1. grey, dingy, overcast, sombre, lacklustre, dark grey, greyish, lustreless, louring or lowering The weather was bitterly cold, with leaden skies.
2. laboured, wooden, stiff, sluggish, plodding, stilted, humdrum a leaden English translation from the Latin
3. lifeless, dull, gloomy, dismal, dreary, languid, listless, spiritless the leaden boredom of the Victorian marriage
4. heavy, lead, crushing, oppressive, cumbersome, inert, onerous, burdensome The dull, leaden sickly feeling returned.
Translations
leaden [ˈledn] ADJ (= of lead) → de plomo, plúmbeo; (in colour) → plomizo (fig) [heart] → triste
leaden [ˈlɛdən] adjde plomb, en plomb
leaden
adj
sky, colour, cloudsbleiern (geh); heart, limbs, stepsbleischwer; silencebedrückend
(pej) (= tedious) translation, dialogueschwerfällig; (= stodgy) foodsehr schwer
(old: = of lead) → bleiern (geh)
leaden [ˈlɛdn] adj (colour, sky) → plumbeo/a (fig) (atmosphere) → teso/a; (silence) → opprimente
with a leaden heart → con la morte nel cuore
leaden [ˈlɛdn] adj (colour, sky) → plumbeo/a (fig) (atmosphere) → teso/a; (silence) → opprimente
with a leaden heart → con la morte nel cuore


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Dear was she to me as the birds that out in the old garden yonder sing and sing their best to lift up my leaden heart.
To punish me, he shut me up in this vase of copper, and he put on the leaden cover his seal, which is enchantment enough to prevent my coming out.
But having some days previously seen from the top of the donjon Madame de Montbazon pass in her carriage, and still cherishing an affection for that beautiful woman, he did not wish to be to her what he wished to be to Mazarin, and in the hope of seeing her again, had asked for a leaden comb, which was allowed him.
 
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