different between sunless vs leaden
sunless
English
Etymology
sun +? -less
Adjective
sunless (comparative more sunless, superlative most sunless)
- Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.
- (figuratively) Dreary, cheerless.
- 1857, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 18, in The Professor:
- When I first saw her, her countenance was sunless, her complexion colourless; she looked like one who had no source of enjoyment, no store of bliss anywhere in the world.
- 1857, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 18, in The Professor:
Derived terms
- sunlessly
- sunlessness
Translations
Anagrams
- unlesss
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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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