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Clouded vs Leaden - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between clouded and leaden

is that clouded is filled with clouds while leaden is made of lead.

As a verb clouded

is simple past and past participle of cloud.

clouded

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Filled with clouds.
  • Unknown, surrounded in mystery.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • Simple past and past participle of cloud.

    • leaden

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dated) Made of lead.
  • Pertaining to or resembling lead; heavy, grey, sluggish.
  • * Ode to a Nightingale , John Keats
    • "Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs, Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow."
  • 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."

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    * * English adjectives ending in -en