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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
Adjective
1. heavy or sluggish: my limbs felt leaden
2. of a dull greyish colour: leaden November sky
3. made of lead
4. gloomy, spiritless, or lifeless: hollow characters and leaden dialogue
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
adjective 2. laboured, wooden, stiff, sluggish, plodding, stilted, humdrum
Translations
leaden [ˈlɛdn] adj [sky, sea] → plomizo (= heavy) [footsteps] → pesado
leaden [ˈlɛdn] adjde or en plomb
leaden [ˈlɛdn] lead2 adj [sky, sea] → bleiern; [movements] → bleischwer
leaden [ˈlɛdn] adjdi piombo


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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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