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# leaden

«leaden» in Mova's school dictionary: **Made of lead, the grey heavy metal: a leaden gutter** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (leadener, leadenest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Made of lead, the grey heavy metal: a leaden gutter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leaden/#m1)

2) Dull grey, like lead: leaden skies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leaden/#m2)

3) Heavy and slow, as if weighed down: leaden legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leaden/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a leaden heart is a heavy or cold heart, and a leaden gutter is a metal channel on a roof

### examples

- The rain fell from the leaden sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leaden/#x1)
- My legs felt leaden after the long walk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leaden/#x2)
- The roof had a leaden gutter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leaden/#x3)
- Her heart was leaden with grief. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leaden/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «leaden» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leaden/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.