leaden

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) leden, (deprecated template usage) leaden, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English (deprecated template usage) lēaden, equivalent to . Cognate with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] West Frisian (deprecated template usage) leaden, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch (deprecated template usage) loden.

Adjective

leaden (comparative more leaden, superlative most leaden)

1. Template:dated Made of lead.
2. Pertaining to or resembling lead; heavy, grey, sluggish.
   • Ode to a Nightingale, John Keats

     "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. Dull; darkened with overcast.

   the sky was leaden and thick

   • 1999: Stardust, Neil Gaiman, page 31 (2001 Perennial paperback edition)

     "It was at the end of February..., when the world was cold..., when icy rains fell from the leaden skies in continual drizzling showers."

Translations

made of lead

• Italian: plumbeo m
• Latin: plumbeus
• Portuguese: plúmbeo (pt)
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• Scottish Gaelic:
• Spanish: plúmbeo (es), plomizo

pertaining to or resembling lead

• Latin: plumbeus, plumbārius
• Portuguese: plúmbeo (pt)
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• Scottish Gaelic:
• Spanish: plúmbeo (es), plomizo

dull

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