Crossword-Solution: LEADEN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Leaden | a. | Made of lead; of the nature of lead; as, a leaden ball. |
| Leaden | a. | Like lead in color, etc. ; as, a leaden sky. |
| Leaden | a. | Heavy; dull; sluggish. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LEADEN | anagram | ANDLEE, ANELED, DALENE, ENALED, LEANED |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with LEADEN (5)
The variegated fields are all one color now; the pastures, the stubble, the roads, the sky are the same leaden gray.
The brain gets muddled, the head grows heavy, and the body’s centre of gravity seems to settle by degrees in a leaden lump somewhere between the eyebrows and the crown.
But, under the leaden infliction which it was her doom to endure, she felt, at moments, as if she must needs shriek out with the full power of her lungs, and cast herself from the scaffold down upon the ground, or else go mad at once.
There are gold men, and tin men, and copper men, and leaden men, and steel men, and so on—and each has the limitations of his nature, his heredities, his training, and his environment.
With the lids drooping over her eyes,—now lifted for an instant, and drawn down again as with leaden weights,—she leaned slightly towards him, and seemed almost to regulate her breath by his.
Quotes with LEADEN (3)
First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.
When I say that I am convinced of these things I speak with too much pride. Far off, like a perfect pearl, one can see the city of God. It is so wonderful that it seems as if a child could reach it in a summer's day. And so a child could. But with me and such as me it is different. One can realise a thing in a single moment, but one loses it in the long hours that follow with leaden feet. It is so difficult to keep 'heights that the soul is competent to gain.' We think in ete…
Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 91 times in crossword archives (1953–2023).