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Leaden

//ˈlɛdən// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Made of lead. dated, literary
  2. 2
    Pertaining to or resembling lead; grey, heavy, sluggish.

    "Where but to think is to be full of sorrow / And leaden-eyed despairs, / Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, / Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow."

  3. 3
    Dull; darkened with overcast.

    "the sky was leaden and thick"

Adjective
  1. 1
    darkened with overcast wordnet
  2. 2
    lacking lightness or liveliness wordnet
  3. 3
    (of movement) slow and laborious wordnet
  4. 4
    made heavy or weighted down with weariness wordnet
  5. 5
    made of lead wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To make or become dull or overcast. ambitransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English leden, leaden, from Old English lēaden (“leaden, of lead”). Cognate with West Frisian leaden (“leaden”), Dutch loden (“leaden”). By surface analysis, lead + -en.

Etymology 2

From Middle English leden, leaden, from Old English lēaden (“leaden, of lead”). Cognate with West Frisian leaden (“leaden”), Dutch loden (“leaden”). By surface analysis, lead + -en.

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