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adjective
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dull, spiritless, or gloomy, as in mood or thought: leaden prose; a leaden atmosphere.
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of a dull gray color: leaden skies.
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oppressive; heavy: a leaden silence.
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EXPANDsluggish; listless: They moved at a leaden pace.
verb (used with object)
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to make leaden, sluggish, dull, etc.: Fatigue had leadened his brain and step.
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leaden
Adjective form of lead (n.); a relic of O.E., which formed adjs. meaning "made of ______" by adding -en to nouns. The figurative sense of "heavy, oppressive, dull" is first attested 1570s.
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