Darkened with overcast:
— The sky was leaden and thick.

synoniem: dull.

Roget 432: gray, grey; iron-gray, dun, drab, dingy, leaden, livid, somber, sad, pearly, russet, roan; calcareous, limy, favillous^†; silver, silvery, silvered; ashen, ashy; cinereous^†, cineritious^†; grizzly, grizzled; slate-colored, stone-colored, mouse-colored, ash-colored; cool.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 429: uncolored etc. (color) etc. 428; colorless, achromatic, aplanatic^†; etiolate, etiolated; hueless^†, pale, pallid; palefaced^†, tallow-faced; faint, dull, cold, muddy, leaden, dun, wan, sallow, dead, dingy, ashy, ashen, ghastly, cadaverous, glassy, lackluster; discolored etc. v.. light-colored, fair, blond; white etc. 430.    pale as death, pale as ashes, pale as a witch, pale as a ghost, pale as a corpse, white as a corpse.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 422: dim, dull, lackluster, dingy, darkish, shorn of its beams, dark 421.    faint, shadowed forth; glassy; cloudy; misty etc. (opaque) 426; blear; muggy^†, fuliginous^†; nebulous, nebular; obnubilated^†, overcast, crepuscular, muddy, lurid, leaden, dun, dirty; looming etc. v.. pale etc. (colorless) 429; confused etc. (invisible) 447.    ... meer laten zien

Pools: szary, chmurny, pochmurny

Made heavy or weighted down with weariness:
— His leaden arms.

synoniem: weighted.

Pools: ołowiany

Made of lead.

Pools: ołowiany

of movement Slow and laborious:
— Leaden steps.

synoniem: plodding.

Lacking lightness or liveliness:
— A leaden conversation.

synoniem: heavy.

Roget 683: inactive; motionless etc. 265; unoccupied etc. (doing nothing) 681; unbusied^†.    indolent, lazy, slothful, idle, lusk^†, remiss, slack, inert, torpid, sluggish, otiose, languid, supine, heavy, dull, leaden, lumpish^†; exanimate^†, soulless; listless; drony^†, dronish^†; lazy as Ludlam's dog.    dilatory, laggard; lagging etc. v.; slow etc. 275; rusty, flagging; lackadaisical, maudlin, fiddle-faddle; pottering etc. v.; shilly-shally etc. (irresolute) 605.    sleeping, etc. v.; asleep; fast asleep, dead asleep, sound asleep; in a sound sleep; sound as a top, dormant, comatose; in the arms of Morpheus, in the lap of Morpheus.    sleepy, sleepful^†; dozy^†, drowsy, somnolent, torpescent^†, lethargic, lethargical^†; somnifacient^†; statuvolent^†, statuvolic^†; heavy, heavy with sleep; napping; somnific^†, somniferous; soporous^†, soporific, soporiferous^†; hypnotic; balmy, dreamy; unawakened, unawakened.    sedative etc. 174.    ... meer laten zien