LEADEN

adj. 1 heavy, onerous, ponderous, dense, burdensome Exhausted, he dragged his leaden feet to the next meeting 2 heavy, dull, numbing, oppressive I was happy to escape the leaden atmosphere of the theatre 3 grey, dull, dingy, gloomy, glowering, lowering, dreary, dismal, oppressive, dark, sullen, sombre The leaden sky seemed to forebode disaster as he fled across the moor 4 inert, lifeless, listless, sluggish, inanimate, inactive, lethargic, languid, languorous, torpid, spiritless, stagnant, static, dormant, soporific, sleepy The refugees trudged along at a leaden pace