adjective (literary)
1 dull grey in colour, like LEAD:
leaden skies
2 dull, heavy or slow:
a leaden heart (= because you are sad) * On leaden feet he made his way down the stairs.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for leaden is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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