'Leaden' definitions:
Definition of 'leaden'
From: WordNet
adjective
Darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "the sky was leaden and thick" [syn: dull, leaden]
adjective
Made heavy or weighted down with weariness; "his leaden arms"; "weighted eyelids" [syn: leaden, weighted]
adjective
Made of lead; "a leaden weight"
adjective
(of movement) slow and laborious; "leaden steps" [syn: leaden, plodding]
adjective
Lacking lightness or liveliness; "heavy humor"; "a leaden conversation" [syn: heavy, leaden]
Definition of 'Leaden'
From: GCIDE
- Leaden \Lead"en\, a.
- 1. Made of lead; of the nature of lead; as, a leaden ball. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Like lead in color, etc.; as, a leaden sky. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Heavy; dull; sluggish. "Leaden slumber." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'leaden'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abeyant,
- achromatic,
- achromic,
- acier,
- anemic,
- apathetic,
- arid,
- ashen,
- ashy,
- aureate,
- awkward,
- barren,
- benumbed,
- blah,
- bled white,
- bloodless,
- bombastic,
- bored,
- brass,
- brassy,
- brazen,
- bronze,
- bronzy,
- burdensome,
- cadaverous,
- canescent,
- cataleptic,
- catatonic,
- characterless,
- chloranemic,
- cinereous,
- cinerous,
- cold,
- colorless,
- copper,
- coppery,
- cramped,
- cumbrous,
- cupreous,
- cuprous,
- dapple,
- dapple-gray,
- dappled,
- dappled-gray,
- dark,
- dead,
- deadly pale,
- deathly pale,
- debilitated,
- dense,
- dim,
- dimmed,
- dingy,
- discolored,
- dismal,
- dopey,
- dormant,
- dove-colored,
- dove-gray,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- droopy,
- drugged,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- enervated,
- etiolated,
- exanimate,
- exsanguinated,
- exsanguine,
- exsanguineous,
- fade,
- faded,
- faint,
- fallow,
- fat,
- ferrous,
- ferruginous,
- flat,
- forced,
- formal,
- foul,
- ghastly,
- gilt,
- glaucescent,
- glaucous,
- gloomy,
- glowering,
- gold,
- gold-filled,
- gold-plated,
- golden,
- gray,
- gray-black,
- gray-brown,
- gray-colored,
- gray-drab,
- gray-green,
- gray-spotted,
- gray-toned,
- gray-white,
- grayed,
- grayish,
- grey,
- griseous,
- grizzle,
- grizzled,
- grizzly,
- groggy,
- guinde,
- haggard,
- halting,
- heavy,
- heavyweight,
- hebetudinous,
- hefty,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- hueless,
- hypochromic,
- in abeyance,
- in suspense,
- inactive,
- inane,
- inanimate,
- inert,
- inexcitable,
- inkhorn,
- insipid,
- iron,
- iron-gray,
- ironlike,
- jaded,
- jejune,
- labored,
- lackadaisical,
- lackluster,
- languid,
- languorous,
- latent,
- Latinate,
- lead,
- lead-gray,
- lethargic,
- lifeless,
- listless,
- livid,
- logy,
- low-spirited,
- lowering,
- lumbering,
- lumpish,
- lurid,
- lusterless,
- massive,
- massy,
- mat,
- mealy,
- mercurial,
- mercurous,
- moribund,
- mouse-colored,
- mouse-gray,
- mousy,
- muddy,
- neutral,
- nickel,
- nickelic,
- nickeline,
- numb,
- numbing,
- onerous,
- oppressive,
- overweight,
- pale,
- pale as death,
- pale-faced,
- pallid,
- passive,
- pasty,
- pearl,
- pearl-gray,
- pearly,
- pedestrian,
- pewter,
- pewtery,
- phlegmatic,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- pompous,
- ponderous,
- pooped,
- Quaker-colored,
- quicksilver,
- sad,
- sallow,
- sated,
- sedentary,
- sesquipedalian,
- sickly,
- silver,
- silver-gray,
- silver-plated,
- silvered,
- silvery,
- slack,
- slate-colored,
- slaty,
- sleeping,
- sleepy,
- slow,
- sluggish,
- slumbering,
- smoke-gray,
- smoky,
- smoldering,
- sober,
- solemn,
- somber,
- somnolent,
- soporific,
- spiritless,
- stagnant,
- stagnating,
- standing,
- static,
- steel,
- steel-gray,
- steely,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- stodgy,
- stone-colored,
- stuffy,
- stultified,
- sullen,
- superficial,
- supine,
- suspended,
- tallow-faced,
- tame,
- tasteless,
- taupe,
- tedious,
- tin,
- tinny,
- toneless,
- torpid,
- turgid,
- unaroused,
- uncolored,
- unlively,
- unwieldy,
- vapid,
- vegetable,
- vegetative,
- wan,
- washed-out,
- waxen,
- weak,
- weary,
- weighty,
- whey-faced,
- white,
- wooden,
- world-weary