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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
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 adj (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 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But it's hard to shake that impression of this leadenly earnest mystical saga, which is basically a search for Big Foot transferred to the Amazonian rainforest. Everyone here is either leadenly earnest or over-the-top, frequently veering awkwardly between the two points. Still lifes by artists such as Caravaggio, Juan Sanchez Cotan, Alberto Giacometti, and some Cubist prototypes are leadenly copied with a heavy handed and bothersome lack of pictorial sensitivity to their sources. |
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