Word Meanings - LEADEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Made of lead; of the nature of lead; as, a leaden ball. 2. Like lead in color, etc. ; as, a leaden sky. 3. Heavy; dull; sluggish. "Leaden slumber." Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LEADEN)

• Saturnine
• Dull
• heavy
• grave
• phlegmatic
• gloomy
• leaden
• sombre

Related words: (words related to LEADEN)

• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• GLOOMY
  1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper
• PHLEGMATICALLY
  In a phlegmatic manner.
• PHLEGMATICLY
  Phlegmatically.
• GRAVEN
  Carved. Graven image, an idol; an object of worship carved from wood, stone, etc. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." Ex. xx. 4.
• SOMBRERO
  A kind of broad-brimmed hat, worn in Spain and in Spanish America. Marryat.
• HEAVY-HEADED
  Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl.
• GRAVEYARD
  A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.
• GRAVELING; GRAVELLING
  1. The act of covering with gravel. 2. A layer or coating of gravel .
• GRAVES' DISEASE
  See DISEASE
• GRAVELESS
  Without a grave; unburied.
• PHLEGMATIC
  1. Watery. "Aqueous and phlegmatic." Sir I. Newton. 2. Abounding in phlegm; as, phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic constitution. Harvey. 3. Generating or causing phlegm. "Cold and phlegmatic habitations." Sir T. Browne. 4. Not easily excited to
• GRAVELLINESS
  State of being gravelly.
• GRAVERY
  The act, process, or art, of graving or carving; engraving. Either of picture or gravery and embossing. Holland.
• GRAVESTONE
  A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone.
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• GRAVELLY
  Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil.
• GRAVEOLENT
  Having a rank smell. Boyle.
• GRAVENSTEIN
  A kind of fall apple, marked with streaks of deep red and orange, and of excellent flavor and quality.
• WILDGRAVE
  A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.
• SOMBERNESS; SOMBRENESS
  The quality or state of being somber; gloominess.
• PALGRAVE
  See PALSGRAVE
• PORTGREVE; PORTGRAVE
  In old English law, the chief magistrate of a port or maritime town.; a portreeve. Fabyan.
• TOP-HEAVY
  Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part. Sir H. Wotton.
• INGRAVE
  To engrave. "Whose gleaming rind ingrav'n." Tennyson.
• UNGRAVE
  To raise or remove from the grave; to disinter; to untomb; to exhume. Fuller.
• ENGRAVEMENT
  1. Engraving. 2. Engraved work. Barrow.
• MARGRAVE
  march; mark bound, border, march + graf earl, count, lord chief justice; cf. Goth. gagrëfts decree: cf. D. markgraaf, F. margrave. 1. Originally, a lord or keeper of the borders or marches in Germany. 2. The English equivalent of the German title