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)

Lying on its back, reclined

* {{quote-news

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Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined.

* Dryden

If the vine / On rising ground be placed, or hills supine .

Negligent; heedless; listless; lethargic; indifferent.

* Woodward

He became pusillanimous and supine , and openly exposed to any temptation.

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Passive

* 1748 , , Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral , London: Oxford University Press: 1973, page 34,

Nothing, therefore, can be more contrary than such a philosophy to the supine indolence of the mind.