Crossword clues for leaden
leaden
- Oppressively heavy
- Very heavy
- Tough to budge
- Hard to pick up
- Dull gray, as winter skies
- Oppressively sluggish
- Like winter skies
- Super heavy, in a way
- Like the winter sky, often
- Like a winter sky
- Lacking lightness
- Inertly heavy
- Heavy & grey (of sky)
- Heavy — plodding
- Heavy — overcast
- Heavily weighted
- Gloomy — slow-moving
- Dull & overcast (sky)
- Difficult to move
- Depressing — heavy
- Plumbiferous
- Spiritless
- Heavy and inert
- Hard to move
- Sluggish, as footsteps
- Hard to lift or move
- Like feet after a long trek
- Color of a stormy sky
- Heavy-footed
- Grey and overcast
- Gloomy lair at bottom of field
- Carrying burdens across back of mule that's slow
- Heavy head when half-cut
- Heavy - plodding
- Dull, slow
- Dull, heavy, slow
- Dull study beginning with articles in French and English
- Dull start, and little energy before conclusion of competition
- Dull London market with no room for meetings
- Dull field study
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Leaden \Lead"en\, a.
Made of lead; of the nature of lead; as, a leaden ball.
Like lead in color, etc.; as, a leaden sky.
Heavy; dull; sluggish. ``Leaden slumber.''
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"made of lead," Old English leaden, from lead (n.1) + -en (2). The figurative sense of "heavy, oppressive, dull" is attested by 1570s. Related: Leadenly; leadenness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context dated English) Made of lead. 2 Pertaining to or resembling lead; heavy, grey, sluggish. 3 Dull; darkened with overcast.
WordNet
adj. darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a gray rainy afternoon"; "gray clouds"; "the sky was leaden and thick" [syn: dull, gray, grey]
made heavy or weighted down with weariness; "his leaden arms"; "weighted eyelids" [syn: weighted]
(of movement) slow and laborious; "leaden steps" [syn: plodding]
lacking lightness or liveliness; "heavy humor"; "a leaden conversation" [syn: heavy]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "leaden".
An acutely satiric man in an English circle, that does not resort to the fist for a reply to him, may almost satiate the excessive fury roused in his mind by an illogical people of a provocative prosperity, mainly tongueless or of leaden tongue above the pressure of their necessities, as he takes them to be.
Now flowing under the crosshairs were clouds alternating with green forest, leaden roads.
On very stormy days the entire apse seemed to awake and to grumble under the noise of the rain as it beat against the leaden tiles of the roof, running off by the gutters of the cornices and rolling from story to story with the clamour of an overflowing torrent.
Over all this hushed desolation played a hideous leaden light as the declining afternoon sun sent its rays through the strange, half-blackened panes of the great apsidal windows.
If shee had any light of her owne then that would in it selfe be, either such a ruddy brightnesse as appeares in the eclipses, or else such a leaden duskish light as wee see in the darker parts of her body, when shee is a little past the conjunction.
Nothing execrable was wanting, neither military scenes full of little leaden soldiers, nor wan antiquity, nor the middle ages, smeared, as it were, with bitumen.
The minutes seemed to drag along with leaden feet, and the quiet, the solemn hush, that brooded over all -- big, as it were, with a coming fate, was most oppressive to the spirits.
We plowed forward monotonously, flagless, running between dark-gray water and a lowering, leaden sky.
And where they looked next morning the frozen pond was gone in an unblemished expanse of white under a leaden sky undisturbed by the flight of a single bird in the gelid stillness that had descended to seize every detail of reed and branch as though time itself were frozen out there threatening the clatter of teacups and silver and the siege of telephoning that had already begun with well when, just tell me when I can talk to him, will you tell him I called?
Even Giles Habibula, incredibly, lost weight until the skin hung in pouches under his hollowed, leaden eyes.
In the next moment, she came between Gurt and another of the beasts, forcing it away from him, hacking at it with an arm that felt leaden and burned with fatigue.
The jerkings gave way to little twitchings and jactitations and the livid colour was replaced by a leaden grey, infinitely more horrible.
Charles Ward - all these engulfed the doctor in a tidal wave of horror as he looked at that dry greenish powder outspread in the pedestalled leaden kylix on the floor.
Charles Ward--all these engulfed the doctor in a tidal wave of horror as he looked at that dry greenish powder outspread in the pedestalled leaden kylix on the floor.
Tom fired the first barrel into its chest, and the heavy leaden loopers thudded into flesh and bone.