LEADEN Synonyms: 199 Similar and Opposite Words

leaden

adjective

ˈle-dᵊn

as in boring

causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest a leaden performance of a classic American play that nearly put us to sleep

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as in gray

of the color gray the leaden sky made everything seem dark and depressing

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Recent Examples of leaden His final line was fine, especially given the blowout nature of the victory, but his legs are clearly leaden at this point. —

Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Feb. 2026 Snow flurries are blowing at an angle, the sky is a leaden grey, and visibility is poor. —

Vivian Song, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026 There are moments where the album’s tone skews leaden, where Shaw positions us right on the edge of despair. —

Linnie Greene, Pitchfork, 17 Feb. 2026 If ‘Oxen’ occupies a region of Ulysses where Joyce’s exquisite ear for memorably musical sentences (‘Mild fire of wine kindled his veins’) takes a back seat to the leaden hum of meta-literature, that is no reason not to be awed by his chutzpah. —

Literary Hub, 5 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for leaden

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An exhausting, preachy, frankly, boring and outdated version of his former self.

— Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2026
Let’s be honest here, and no disrespect to venerable family board games, but Monopoly is kind of boring.

— Jeff Spry, Space.com, 8 May 2026