Leafen vs Leaden - What's the difference?
leafen | leaden |
(dated) Made of lead.
Pertaining to or resembling lead; heavy, grey, sluggish.
* Ode to a Nightingale , John Keats
Dull; darkened with overcast.
* 1999: Stardust , Neil Gaiman, page 31 (2001 Perennial paperback edition)
As adjectives the difference between leafen and leaden
is that leafen is formed in leaves while leaden is (dated) made of lead.leaden
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "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."
- the sky was leaden and thick
- "It was at the end of February..., when the world was cold..., when icy rains fell from the leaden skies in continual drizzling showers."