Definition: darkened with overcast
Usage: a dark day; a dull sky; the sky was leaden and thick
Definition: lacking lightness or liveliness
Usage: heavy humor; a leaden conversation
Similar words: dull
Definition: lacking in liveliness or animation
Usage: he was so dull at parties; a dull political campaign; a large dull impassive man; dull days with nothing to do; how dull and dreary the world is; fell back into one of her dull moods
Definition: (of movement) slow and laborious
Usage: leaden steps
Similar words: effortful
Definition: requiring great physical effort
Definition: made heavy or weighted down with weariness
Usage: his leaden arms; weighted eyelids
Similar words: heavy
Definition: marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness
Usage: a heavy heart; a heavy schedule; heavy news; a heavy silence; heavy eyelids