From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. Made of lead; of the nature of lead; as, a leaden ball.
2. Like lead in color, etc.; as, a leaden sky.
3. Heavy; dull; sluggish. ''Leaden slumber.'' --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a gray rainy afternoon"; "gray clouds"; "the sky was leaden and thick" [syn: {dull}, {gray}, {grey}]
2: made heavy or weighted down with weariness; "his leaden arms"; "weighted eyelids" [syn: {weighted}]
3: (of movement) slow and laborious; "leaden steps" [syn: {plodding}]
4: lacking lightness or liveliness; "heavy humor"; "a leaden conversation" [syn: {heavy}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
274 Moby Thesaurus words for "leaden": Latinate, Quaker-colored, abeyant, achromatic, achromic, acier, anemic, apathetic, arid, ashen, ashy, aureate, awkward, barren, benumbed, blah, bled white, bloodless, bombastic, bored, brass, brassy, brazen, bronze, bronzy, burdensome, cadaverous, canescent, cataleptic, catatonic, characterless, chloranemic, cinereous, cinerous, cold, colorless, copper, coppery, cramped, cumbrous, cupreous, cuprous, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dark, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, debilitated, dense, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, dismal, dopey, dormant, dove-colored, dove-gray, draggy, drearisome, dreary, droopy, drugged, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, enervated, etiolated, exanimate, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, fade, faded, faint, fallow, fat, ferrous, ferruginous, flat, forced, formal, foul, ghastly, gilt, glaucescent, glaucous, gloomy, glowering, gold, gold-filled, gold-plated, golden, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grey, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, groggy, guinde, haggard, halting, heavy, heavyweight, hebetudinous, hefty, ho-hum, hollow, hueless, hypochromic, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inane, inanimate, inert, inexcitable, inkhorn, insipid, iron, iron-gray, ironlike, jaded, jejune, labored, lackadaisical, lackluster, languid, languorous, latent, lead, lead-gray, lethargic, lifeless, listless, livid, logy, low-spirited, lowering, lumbering, lumpish, lurid, lusterless, massive, massy, mat, mealy, mercurial, mercurous, moribund, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, muddy, neutral, nickel, nickelic, nickeline, numb, numbing, onerous, oppressive, overweight, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, passive, pasty, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, pedestrian, pewter, pewtery, phlegmatic, plodding, pointless, poky, pompous, ponderous, pooped, quicksilver, sad, sallow, sated, sedentary, sesquipedalian, sickly, silver, silver-gray, silver-plated, silvered, silvery, slack, slate-colored, slaty, sleeping, sleepy, slow, sluggish, slumbering, smoke-gray, smoky, smoldering, sober, solemn, somber, somnolent, soporific, spiritless, stagnant, stagnating, standing, static, steel, steel-gray, steely, sterile, stiff, stilted, stodgy, stone-colored, stuffy, stultified, sullen, superficial, supine, suspended, tallow-faced, tame, tasteless, taupe, tedious, tin, tinny, toneless, torpid, turgid, unaroused, uncolored, unlively, unwieldy, vapid, vegetable, vegetative, wan, washed-out, waxen, weak, weary, weighty, whey-faced, white, wooden, world-weary
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