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Sunless vs Leaden - What's the difference?

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Sunless is a related term of leaden.


As adjectives the difference between sunless and leaden

is that sunless is without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed while leaden is (dated) made of lead.

sunless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.
  • * 1816 , , Kubla Khan (or, a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment) :
    • In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
    A stately pleasure dome decree:
    Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
    Through caverns measureless to man
    Down to a sunless sea.
  • (figuratively) Dreary, cheerless.
  • * 1857 , , The Professor , ch. 18:
    • 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.

    Derived terms

    * sunlessly * sunlessness

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    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