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leaden
English
Etymology
From Middle English leden, leaden, from Old English l?aden (“leaden, of lead”), equivalent to lead +? -en. Cognate with West Frisian leaden (“leaden”), Dutch loden (“leaden”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?d?n/
- Rhymes: -?d?n
Adjective
leaden (comparative more leaden, superlative most leaden)
- (dated) Made of lead.
- Pertaining to or resembling lead; grey, heavy, sluggish.
- 1818-1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Julian and Maddalo
- [...] if man be
The passive thing you say, I should not see
Much harm in the religions and old saws
(Tho' I may never own such leaden laws)
Which break a teachless nature to the yoke.
- [...] if man be
- 1818-1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Julian and Maddalo
- Dull; darkened with overcast.
- the sky was leaden and thick
- 1999: Stardust, Neil Gaiman, page 31 (2001 Perennial paperback edition)
- "It was at the end of February..., when the world was cold..., when icy rains fell from the leaden skies in continual drizzling showers."
Translations
Verb
leaden (third-person singular simple present leadens, present participle leadening, simple past and past participle leadened)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become dull or overcast.
Anagrams
- Delena, andele, aneled, leaned, nealed
Middle English
Etymology 1
Verb
leaden
- Alternative form of leden (“to lead”)
Etymology 2
Adjective
leaden
- Alternative form of leden (“leaden”)
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?læ???.den/
Adjective
l?aden
- Alternative form of l?eden
Declension
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hazy
English
Etymology
From earlier hawsey (1625), a nautical term of uncertain origin. Possibly from Middle English *hasi, *haswy, from Old English haswi? (“grey; ashen; dusky”), from Old English hasu (“dusky; grey; ashen”), from Proto-Germanic *haswaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *?eh?s- (“bright grey”), surface analysis as haze +? -y; although Modern English haze is more likely a back-formation of hazy.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?he?zi/
- Rhymes: -e?zi
Adjective
hazy (comparative hazier, superlative haziest)
- Thick or obscured with haze.
- a hazy view of the polluted city street
- Not clear or transparent.
- Obscure; confused; not clear.
- a hazy argument
- a hazy intellect
Synonyms
- (thick with haze): hazed; see also Thesaurus:nebulous
- (not clear or transparent): blurry, fuzzy, ill-defined; see also Thesaurus:indistinct
- (obscure, confused): ambiguous, equivocal; see also Thesaurus:vague
Derived terms
- hazily
- haziness
Translations
Further reading
- hazy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- hazy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- yazh
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