Leaden

Definitions: Leaden

Leaden

Adjective

1. Darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a gray rainy afternoon"; "gray clouds"; "the sky was leaden and thick".

2. Made heavy or weighted down with weariness; "his leaden arms"; "weighted eyelids".

3. (of movement) slow and laborious; "leaden steps".

4. Lacking lightness or liveliness; "heavy humor"; "a leaden conversation".

Date "leaden" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Synonyms: Leaden

Synonyms: dull (adj), gray (adj), grey (adj), heavy (adj), plodding (adj), weighted (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Inactivity	Indolent, lazy, slothful, idle, lusk, remiss, slack, inert, torpid, sluggish, otiose, languid, supine, heavy, dull, leaden, lumpish; exanimate, soulless; listless; drony, dronish; lazy as Ludlam's dog.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Leaden

English words defined with "leaden": bulla ♦ Calculating machine ♦ dull ♦ -en ♦ gray, grey ♦ heavy ♦ Latterkin, Lead mill ♦ Unplumb ♦ weighted. (references)

Specialty definitions using "leaden": Cupid's Golden Arrow ♦ Golden Ball ♦ John with the Leaden Sword ♦ leaden appearance, Leaden Hail, Leaden Hall ♦ NEW COLLEGE STUDENTS. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Leaden" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Frisian (lead).

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Under a Leaden Sky (2001)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Golden Dreams and Leaden Realities (reference) Leaden Wings (reference) Nat af bly og aske = Leaden night and ashes : Jens Birkemose ... : udstillingsbygningen ved Charlottenborg, august-september 1984 (reference) The golden booke of the leaden gods : London 1577 (reference) (more book examples)

Music	This Leaden Pall [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	"She pretended to eat a little of the furmity with the leaden spoon." / R. Barnes. An engagement in the oyster war on the Chesapeake / / from a sketch by F. Cresson Schell.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Ralph Waldo Emerson	To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	In the bend of his elbow might be seen the leaden head of his enormous cane, which disappeared behind him.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Leaden" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Leaden" is used about 127 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	127	28,395

Expression using "leaden": leaden appearance. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "leaden": leaden-armed, leaden-footed, leaden-grey.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "leaden"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shtypës (ejector, expediter, oppressive, oppressor, pounder, repressive, suppressor), prej plumbi, plumbi, i zymtë (black, cheerless, crepuscular, dark, depressed, dismal, dour, drab, dreary, eerie, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, grim, heavy, macabre, mirk, mirthless, morose, mournful, muddy, murk, sad, sepulchral, somber, sombre, spleenful, stark, sulky, sullen, surly, tenebrous, winterly, wintry), i rëndë (arduous, artless, awkward, bad, bulky, burdensome, cubbish, cumbersome, cumbrous, dead, difficile, elephantine, grave, grievous, grinding, hard, heavy, hefty, incondite, knock about, lumping, massive, oafish, onerous, peremptory, plodding, ponderous, portly, serious, set up, severe, solemn, stertorous, stodgy, tricky, unwieldy, wakeless, weighty). (various references)

Arabic		‏كئيب (bleak, blue, cheerless, damp, dark, dejected, depressed, depressing, depressive, desolate, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorous, down, downcast, down-hearted, drear, dreary, droopy, dyspeptic, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, gray, grey, grief-stricken, grieved, grievous, heavy-hearted, ill, joyless, lifeless, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, moody, mournful, out of spirits, rueful, sad, saddening, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, tearful, weary), ‏ثقيل (boring, cumbersome, dully, heaver, heavy, hefty, hulking, lumbering, massive, oppressive, ponderous, stodgy, uninteresting, unwieldy, weighty), ‏رصاصي (leady, plumbic), ‏ردئ النوع (cheap, flimsy, shabby, wretched), ‏شاحب (bloodless, colorless, colourless, greyish, haggard, insular, livid, mealy, pale, palish, pallid, paly, pasty faced, peaky, sallow, sick, sickly, wan), ‏داكن (blackish, dark, deep, dingy, dirty, dusky, sad, swarthy). (various references)

Bulgarian		тежък като олово, тежък (cumbrous, dense, difficult, distressing, faint, grave, grievous, grinding, hammering, hard, heavy, hefty, high, hulking, labored, laborious, laboured, lumping, lumpish, lumpy, massive, massy, muggy, onerous, painful, plodding, ponderous, robust, rugged, sad, severe, shrewd, sledgehammer, slow, smart, smashing, soggy, solemn, sore, stiff, stodgy, taxing, thorny, tight, tough, traumatic, trying, unwieldy, uphill, weighty), куршумен, вял (colorless, colourless, dead alive, half hearted, indolent, insipid, lackadaisical, lifeless, remiss, slow, torpid), оловносив (leady), оловен (lead, plumbeous, plumbic, saturnine), натежал (heavy, logged), задушен (airless, muggy, oppressive, pockety, stewed, stuffy, unventilated), бавен (creeping, deliberate, dense, dilatory, languid, leisurely, lingering, long, lumpish, pernickety, plodding, slack, slow, sluggish, stagnant, stopping, tardigrade, tardy, unready), долнокачествен (crummy, cut rate, gross, hedge, inferior, low-grade, pinchbeck, ropy, scrubby, sleazy, slim, third class, tinpot, trashy). (various references)

Chinese		沉重 (heavily). (various references)

Czech		olovìný. (various references)

Danish		blygrå (leaden appearance). (various references)

Dutch		loodkleurig (leaden appearance). (various references)

Farsi		مانندسرب , کند (Ballast, Blunt, Dilatory, Dull, Haunt, Heavy, Late, Lazy, Slack, Slow, Sluggish, Tardy, Unapt, Unready), سربی رنگ (Livid), سربی . (various references)

Finnish		lyijynharmaa (lead-coloured), lyijyinen (lead). (various references)

French		lourd, terne, plombé (leaden appearance, leady), morne (Lenten), mauvais. (various references)

German		bleiern (lead, leadenly, onerous). (various references)

Greek		βαρύσ (beefy, cumbrous, heavy, hefty, labored, laboured, logy, lumpish, massive, onerous, ponderous, pregnant, saturnine, stodgy, waterlogged, weighty), μολύβδινοσ. (various references)

Hebrew		עופרתי (plumbic), עשוי עופרת, אפל (black, dark, dim, gloomy, obscure, somber), אפור (ashen, grey, make up), כב�" (burdensome, difficult, dull, hard, heavy, massive, weighty). (various references)

Hungarian		ólomból való. (various references)

Indonesian		bungkal (chunk). (various references)

Italian		plumbeo (heavy, leaden appearance, oppressive, plumbeous, slate-coloured), di piombo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		鉛製 (made of lead), 重苦しい (awkward, cumbrous, gloomy, heavy, oppressive). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おもくるしい (awkward, cumbrous, gloomy, heavy, oppressive), え�"せい (away series, campaign, complaint, expedition, made of lead, malleability, murmur, pessimism, tour, weariness with life). (various references)

Manx		trome-choshagh, marroo-hooillagh (dull-eyed, heavy-eyed), jeh daah ny leoaie. (various references)

Norwegian		blyaktig. (various references)

Pig Latin		eadenlay

Portuguese		plúmbeo (lead, plumber), pesado como chumbo, pesado (burdensome, cumbersome, cumbrous, drabbet, elephantine, gloomy forecast, gross, heavy, hefty, hulking, loin, lumbering, lumping, lumpish, massive, massy, muff, muggy, onerous, oppressive, plop, ponderous, rigourous, slowpoke, sodden, soggy, sound, stodgy, stringent, tubby, unwieldy, weighty), inerte (aggregate, drowsy, inactive, inert, inertia, leader, lifeless, lumpish, stagnant, supine), de chumbo. (various references)

Romanian		sur (Gray, grey, grizzle, grizzly, neutral), plumburiu (livid), greu (annoying, arduous, awkward, burden, burdensome, busy, clumsy, dangerously, difficult, difficulty, fatiguing, gravely, grievous, hard, hardly, heavily, heavy, inconvenient, labored, laborious, laboured, lot, massive, massy, near, onerous, oppressive, painful, parlous, precarious, punitive, reluctantly, scarcely, seriously, severe, solid, stiff, stodgy, stolid, strenuous, stuffy, ticklish, toilful, tough, troublesome, trying, uneasy, uphill, wearisome, weary, weight, weighty), de plumb (saturnine), cenuşiu (ash-colored, ash-coloured, ashen, ashy, drab, Gray, grey, greyish, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, hoary, neutral). (various references)

Russian		свинцовый (leady, plumbeous, plumbic, saturnine). (various references)

Scottish		luaidh (lead, lead or plummet, leaden shot, mention, thicken cloth by fulling). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		trom (bovine, heavy-footed, indolent, lackadaisical, laggard, listless, logy, otiose, slow, sluggish, torpid), težak (bulky, crushing, difficile, difficult, formidable, grave, hard, heavy, hefty, kittle, labored, laborious, laboured, lumbering, ponderous, punishing, rough, swingeing, trying, uneasy, weighty), siv (grey, grizzle), olovni (lead, plumbeous), namršten (gloomy, somber, sombre). (various references)

Spanish		de plomo (lead). (various references)

Swedish		tung som bly, blygrå (livid), bly- (lead), av bly (lead). (various references)

Thai		ที่ทำจากตะกั่ว. (various references)

Turkish		kurşuni (dark grey, livid), kurşundan yapılmış (lead). (various references)

Ukranian		сірий (blunket, drab, grey, grisly, grizzly, wan), свинцевий (plumbeous, plumbic, saturnine), важкий (arduous, awkward, baffling, chargeable, complex, difficult, hard, heavy, heavyweight, laborious, muggy, near, opulent, ponderous, robust, sweaty, toilful, toilsome, trying, wall eyed, walloping, weighty). (various references)

Vietnamese		bằng chì; xám xịt như chì; nặng như chì nặng nề. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	plumbeam, plumbeus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "leaden": leadenly, leadenness, leadennesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Leaden" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beaden, Bleadney, Eaden, eladen, Elagen, Eldene, Elgaren, Elsden, ladens, ladent, laiden, lauden, Leada, Leadam, leade, leafen, leagen, leasen, Leddin, leedex, Leesen, Leeuwen, leizen, leode, Leupena, levade, Levadia, liadin, Liadov, Liedelein, Lieden, Liederene, Llegada, loaden, loafen, Loedemel, looden, louden, readen, Seaden. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "leaden" (pronounced le"dun)
4	-e" d u n	deaden, redden.
3	-d u n	abandon, bedridden, beholden, broaden, burden, cordon, downtrodden, embolden, forbidden, garden, gladden, golden, harden, hidden, Holden, Jordan, laden, Linden, Loden, Louden, madden, maiden, menhaden, Myrmidon, olden, overburden, overridden, pardon, prekindergarten, prostaglandin, ridden, sadden, sodden, Soldan, sudden, tendon, unburden, warden, widen, wooden.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: aneled, leaned.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-l-n"
	-1 letter: anele, eland, laden, naled.
	-2 letters: alee, dale, deal, dean, dele, dene, elan, lade, land, lane, lead, lean, lend, need.
	-3 letters: ale, and, ane, dal, dee, del, den, eel, eld, end, lad, lea, led, lee, nae, nee.
	-4 letters: ad, ae, al, an, de, ed, el, en, la, na, ne.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-l-n"
	+1 letter: aliened, angeled, cleaned, delaine, deplane, enabled, endleaf, enlaced, gleaned, ladened, latened, leadmen, learned, paneled.
	+2 letters: aldermen, annealed, antlered, bendable, calender, canceled, cleansed, dalesmen, danegeld, dateline, deadline, delaines, deniable, deplaned, deplanes, emplaned, enameled, endemial, endplate, enfilade, enflamed, enhaloed, enlarged, enplaned, enslaved, entailed, fenagled, hanseled, headline, lamented, lanceted, lavender, leadenly, leadsmen, leavened, lemonade, lendable, levanted, lineated, mendable, oleander, panelled, rehandle, reloaned, renailed, sendable, talented, unaneled, unhealed, unleaded, unleased, unsealed, vendable.
	+3 letters: alexander, alienated, alimented, allemande, amendable, banderole, bandoleer, blackened, blanketed, blarneyed, breadline, calenders, cancelled, celandine, chandelle, channeled, concealed, congealed, danceable, danegelds, datelined, datelines, deadlines, decennial, definable, defleaing, deleading, deleaving, delineate, demential, detonable, ealdormen, elongated, emendable, empaneled, enamelled, enclasped, endleaves, endosteal, endplates, endurable, enfiladed, enfilades, engrailed, ensilaged, ensnarled, entangled, esplanade, euclidean, explained, explanted, flanneled, flattened, gantleted, gladdened, glandered, handseled, handwheel, hanselled, headlined, headliner, headlines, impaneled, javelined, kneadable, laundered, launderer, lavenders, learnedly, legendary, lemonades, madeleine, madrilene, magdalene, melanized, nonleaded, nucleated, oleanders, overladen, penalised, penalized, prebendal, realigned, recleaned, rehandled, rehandles, relearned, repaneled, replanned, replanted, slackened, slandered, slanderer, spanceled, spendable, tailender, tentacled, toenailed, unaltered, uncleaned, unequaled, unlabeled, unlearned, unleashed, unpleased, unraveled, unrelated, unrelaxed, vendables.
	+4 letters: adherently, adolescent, adrenaline, adulterine, agendaless, alderwomen, alexanders, allemandes, alternated, ascendable, ascendible, baldnesses, banderoles, bandleader, bandoleers, breadlines, calendared, calendered, calenderer, celandines, challenged, chandelier, chandelled, chandelles, channelled, confederal, credential, crenelated, crenulated, deadliness, decadently, decennials, declinable, defendable, delaminate, delegating, delegation, delineated, delineates, delineator, demandable, dependable, dependably, derailment, desalinate, desalinize, dilettante, elatedness, eliminated, emblazoned, embrangled, empanelled, encapsuled, endodermal, endorsable, endothelia, enthralled, entodermal, enucleated, esplanades, evidential, expandable, expendable, extendable, flannelled, freelanced, gauntleted, gladnesses, goaltender, goldenseal, handleable, handleless, handselled, handwheels, headliners, heulandite, impanelled, indelicate, ineducable, interlaced, interplead, lamentedly, launderers, laundrette, lavendered, leadenness, linearised, linearized, longheaded, lunkheaded, madeleines, madrilenes, magdalenes, malingered, mislearned, myelinated, newfangled, newsdealer, nonfederal, outlearned, overhandle, pedimental, phenolated, planetwide, ponderable, precleaned, preplanned, reanalyzed, rebalanced, refundable, reinflated, relaunched, renderable, repanelled, repleading, ringleader, screenland, slanderers, spancelled, tailenders, ultradense, unbendable, unbleached, uncanceled, undeclared, undeniable, underglaze, undervalue, uneducable, unenlarged, unequalled, unexampled, unheralded, unlamented, unleavened, unravelled, unreadable, unrealized, unrevealed, untalented, untraveled, ventilated, vernalized.
	+5 letters: accelerando, acetanilide, acknowledge, adolescence, adolescents, adrenalines, adrenalized, adultnesses, advertently, aldosterone, alexandrine, alexandrite, bandleaders, belatedness, binucleated, blandnesses, calenderers, calendering, candleberry, candlepower, centralised, centralized, chandeliers, chandleries, channelized, clandestine, cleanhanded, commendable, condemnable, condensable, convalesced, credentials, crenellated, dailinesses, deadeningly, deafeningly, decennially, deceptional, decremental, deferential, delaminated, delaminates, delectation, delegations, delineating, delineation, delineative, delineators, deliverance, deliveryman, demountable, denticulate, denumerable, denumerably, derailments, desalinated, desalinates, desalinized, desalinizes, detasseling, detonatable, detrimental, diencephala, dilettantes, disablement, discernable, disentailed, disentangle, dispensable, durableness, endearingly, endemically, endometrial, endosteally, endothelial, engarlanded, eternalized, evangelized, expendables, frankpledge, fraudulence, freeloading, gelatinized, generalised, generalized, geniculated, goaltenders, goldenseals, greenmailed, halogenated, heulandites, indefinable, interallied, interdealer, interdental, interlapped, interlarded, interleaved, interplayed, interpleads, knucklehead, lamebrained, launderette, laundresses, laundrettes, lavendering, learnedness, legendarily, legerdemain, lionhearted, medicinable, mentholated, mineralised, mineralized, neanderthal, needlewoman, neutralised, neutralized, newsdealers, nondelegate, overcleaned, overhandled, overhandles, overlearned, overplanned, overplanted, pedestaling, pedunculate, pentahedral, pentlandite, philandered, philanderer, precanceled, recanalized, rechanneled, reimplanted, reinstalled, relandscape, relatedness, relaxedness, residential, ringleaders, screenlands, sensualized, sloganeered, stonewalled, streamlined, tabernacled, unalienated, unassembled, unbudgeable, unchanneled, uncoalesced, unconcealed, undanceable, undebatable, undecidable, undefinable, undelegated, underglazes, underlapped, underplayed, undervalued, undervalues, undesirable, unendurable, unevaluated, unexplained, unlaundered, unliberated, unreclaimed, unregulated, untrammeled, unweariedly.
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