leaden
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈlɛdən/
leaden
- (dated) Made of lead.
- Pertaining to or resembling lead; grey, heavy, sluggish.
- 1819, John Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: Printed [by Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, OCLC 927360557 ↗, stanza 3, page 109 ↗:
- 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.
- 1818-1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Julian and Maddalo
- [...] if man be
The passive thing you say, I should not see
Much harm in the religions and old saws
(Tho' I may never own such leaden laws)
Which break a teachless nature to the yoke.
- [...] if man be
- 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."
leaden (leadens, present participle leadening; past and past participle leadened)
- (ambitransitive) To make or become dull or overcast.
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