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What is the adjective for leading?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb lead which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

leading
  1. Providing guidance or direction
  2. Ranking first
  3. Occurring in advance; preceding
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Unemployment appears to be the leading issue for voters leading up to the election.”
      “The company holds a leading market position due to its superior, and more innovative, products.”
      “Looking for some restraint on Charles, Michael made a shrewd appeal to King Louis IX of France, the leading ruler of the West and the elder brother of Charles.”
leaded
  1. Held in place by strips of lead.
  2. Containing or treated with the element lead.
  3. Containing tetraethyllead.
leaderless
  1. Without a person providing direction.
  2. Without a thing serving as leader.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Democrats must stop looking leaderless, fumbling, unfocused, disorganized, and confused.”
      “These outfits are non-hierarchical, decentralised, nominally leaderless and organised with militaristic precision.”
      “It is part of the hollow acoustics of a bankrupt and leaderless opposition.”
lead
leaderful
  1. (business) Typical of, or befitting, a leader; capable of leading a project or a team.
leaderish
  1. Like a leader; leaderlike.
leadlike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of the metal lead.
leaderlike
  1. Indicating or characteristic of a leader
leady
  1. Resembling lead (the metal).
  2. Examples:
    1. “The leady traced the ruined span with his metal finger, a tiny spider-web, almost invisible.”
      “Drawing his lips tight over his teeth, he glared at the A-class leady.”
      “Pi Sin buy um all leady at bakee when he go fetch shave-man.”
leadless
  1. Without lead (the metal).
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “For melting the leadless glasses, open, bowl-shaped crucibles are used, ranging from 12 to 40 in.”
      “When Little's leadless pistols met his eye, And Bow-street myrmidons stood laughing by.”
      “Putting aside salt glaze we find a countless number of both lead and leadless glazes.”
leaderly
  1. Befitting a leader.
leadable
  1. Capable of being led.
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