leaden

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The sky was dull and leaden, and cindery flakes of snow were thinly falling.

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  1. adjective Made of or containing lead.
  2. adjective Heavy and inert.
  3. adjective Listless; sluggish.

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  • His arms had become heavy and leaden, and he could barely move them. —  Marv wolfman - Superman Returns
  • My limbs felt leaden, as they had in my dreams, and my body ached in myriad places. —  Kushiel’s Avatar
  • The skies were leaden, there were clouds in the valleys below, hiding the lateral moraines, wisps of cloud edge curling up against the mountainsides like tentacles of fog. —  WorldsEnough ;Time
  • Her arms and legs were leaden, and the voices were yammering at her. —  Alien Plot by Piers Anthony
  • For the unconditioned foreigner (such as your reporter) who shows up in the leaden, acrid filth of an overcast day in Beijing or Chonqing, the physical effects can be immediate headaches, nausea and disorientation. —  Energy Bulletin -
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. from Middle English leden, from Anglo-Saxon leáden (= Dutch looden), of lead, from leád, lead: see leadand -en.
  2. leaden, a,, or lead + -en (3).
 

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/ˈlɛdn/
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