Leaden
adjective
Very heavy or slow, lacking liveliness.
After a long day of work, his steps were leaden.
adjective
Made of lead, colored or sounding like lead.
The sky was a leaden color, as if it might rain soon.
adjective
Very heavy or slow, lacking liveliness.
After a long day of work, his steps were leaden.
adjective
Made of lead, colored or sounding like lead.
The sky was a leaden color, as if it might rain soon.
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Pro Tip 1/3Physical Fatigue
Used to describe the weight and slowness caused by tiredness or physical burden.
His limbs felt leaden after the marathon.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional State
Expresses the sluggish movements due to a person's sadness or despair.
Her heart felt leaden with grief.
Pro Tip 3/3Atmosphere
Conveys a mood or atmosphere that is dull and lacking in energy.
The party was leaden, with few people dancing.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Fatigue
Used to describe the weight and slowness caused by tiredness or physical burden.
His limbs felt leaden after the marathon.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional State
Expresses the sluggish movements due to a person's sadness or despair.
Her heart felt leaden with grief.
Pro Tip 3/3Atmosphere
Conveys a mood or atmosphere that is dull and lacking in energy.
The party was leaden, with few people dancing.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Fatigue
Used to describe the weight and slowness caused by tiredness or physical burden.
His limbs felt leaden after the marathon.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional State
Expresses the sluggish movements due to a person's sadness or despair.
Her heart felt leaden with grief.
Pro Tip 3/3Atmosphere
Conveys a mood or atmosphere that is dull and lacking in energy.
The party was leaden, with few people dancing.
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How Ants Use the Sun to...
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Quote examples
Rosa Luxemburg
Russian Activist
Under the leaden sway of Alexander III's government, the silence of the graveyard prevailed. Russian society, equally discouraged by the collapse of all hopes for peaceful reforms and by the apparent ineffectiveness of the revolutionary movement, was in the grip of a mood of depression and resignation.
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Will Self
English Author
To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short.
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Gary Hume
English Artist
I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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Terry Pratchett
English Author
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.
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Alan Moore
British Writer
When alchemists were talking about turning lead to gold, they were talking about turning a leaden consciousness, which most of us exist in during our lives, into a golden consciousness, which is a much better place to be.
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Richard M. Nixon
American President
The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.
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Walter Kirn
American Novelist
If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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Martin Landau
American Actor
I always believed that all it would take was a decent role. I felt like a pinch hitter with a leaden bat: that if I got a chance, I could hit a home run.
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John Milius
American Director
I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.
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Rosa Luxemburg
Russian Activist
Under the leaden sway of Alexander III's government, the silence of the graveyard prevailed. Russian society, equally discouraged by the collapse of all hopes for peaceful reforms and by the apparent ineffectiveness of the revolutionary movement, was in the grip of a mood of depression and resignation.
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Will Self
English Author
To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short.
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Gary Hume
English Artist
I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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Terry Pratchett
English Author
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.
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Alan Moore
British Writer
When alchemists were talking about turning lead to gold, they were talking about turning a leaden consciousness, which most of us exist in during our lives, into a golden consciousness, which is a much better place to be.
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Richard M. Nixon
American President
The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.
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Walter Kirn
American Novelist
If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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Martin Landau
American Actor
I always believed that all it would take was a decent role. I felt like a pinch hitter with a leaden bat: that if I got a chance, I could hit a home run.
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John Milius
American Director
I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.
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