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leaden

adjective

= grey, dingy, overcast, sombre, lacklustre, dark grey, greyish, lustreless, louring or lowering • The weather was bitterly cold, with leaden skies.
= laboured, wooden, stiff, sluggish, plodding, stilted, humdrum • a leaden English translation from the Latin
= lifeless, dull, gloomy, dismal, dreary, languid, listless, spiritless • the leaden boredom of the Victorian marriage
= heavy, lead, crushing, oppressive, cumbersome, inert, onerous, burdensome • The dull, leaden sickly feeling returned.

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