Definitions for leaden

leaden lead·en

Spelling: [led-n]
IPA: /ˈlɛd n/

Leaden is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 101 anagrams from letters in leaden (adeeln).

Definitions for leaden

adjective

  1. inertly heavy like lead; hard to lift or move:
  2. dull, spiritless, or gloomy, as in mood or thought:
  3. of a dull gray color:
  4. oppressive; heavy:
  5. sluggish; listless:
  6. of poor quality or little value.
  7. made or consisting of lead.

verb (used with object)

  1. to make leaden, sluggish, dull, etc.:

Origin of leaden

before 1000; Middle English leden, Old English lēaden. See lead2, -en2

Examples for leaden

That there was a way to tell the story and not have been leaden—not be a chore or an ordeal.

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

Technically, White should seem out of step with our current pop-centric culture: leaden, irrelevant, dinosauric.

Those who had not been shot fell to the ground to escape the leaden hail.

The Romney-Ryan Medicare proposal is stunningly unpopular—and Romney left the debate firmly lashed to its leaden weight.

Now the minutes dragged with leaden feet until Dick should come.

Her feet were refusing to carry her, leaden and weighty as they seemed.

In the meantime the sun had retired behind thick, leaden clouds.

God's wrath comes with leaden feet, but it strikes with iron hands.

As they approached it, the dull hue that lay upon it resembled that of the leaden sky.

Word Value for leaden
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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