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."

Adjective

(en adjective)

Not easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish.

* {{quote-book

, year=1873 , author=Jules Verne , title=Around the World in 80 Days , chapter=2 citation , passage=Calm and phlegmatic , with a clear eye, Mr. Fogg seemed a perfect type of that English composure which Angelica Kauffmann has so skilfully represented on canvas.}}

* 2013 , A.O. Scott, “How It Looks to Think: Watch Her,” Rev. of , dir. by Margarethe von Trotta, New York Times 29 May 2013: C1. Print.

Their friendship (immortalized in a splendid volume of letters that has clearly served as one of Ms. von Trotta's sources) is a fascinating study in cultural and temperamental contrast, an impulsive and witty American paired with a steady, phlegmatic German.

(archaic) Abounding in phlegm; as, phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic constitution.

Generating, causing, or full of phlegm.

* Sir Thomas Browne

cold and phlegmatic habitations

Watery (en).