leaden

Meaning

Adj

1. (dated, literary) Made of lead.
2. Pertaining to or resembling lead; grey, heavy, sluggish.
3. Dull; darkened with overcast.

Verb

To make or become dull or overcast.

Synonyms

heavy

dull

weighted

plodding

gloomy

weighty

ponderous

onerous

made of lead

oppressive

lead

cumbrous

hefty

inert

iron

labored

laboring

laboured

labouring

light blue

livid

logy

lumbering

lumpish

massive

metallic

painful

phlegmatic

pregnant

saturnine

serious

slow

sluggish

spiritless

stodgy

tardigrade

toiling

tough

waterlogged

ash-colored

ash-gray

plumbeous

ory

awkward

of lead

backbreaking

beefy

blue

brown

burdensome

Translations

plomizo

plúmbeo

plombé

plumbeus

plúmbeo

lourd

plumbeo

loden

gris

de plomo

μολυβένιος

رصاصي

bleiern

bleischwer

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈlɛdən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: leden

Inherited from Old English: lēaden

Cognate with Western Frisian: leaden

Cognate with Dutch: loden

In summary

From Middle English leden, leaden, from Old English lēaden (“leaden, of lead”). Cognate with West Frisian leaden (“leaden”), Dutch loden (“leaden”). By surface analysis, lead + -en.