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Waxy Common

Waxy has 7 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Noun
1

A cobbler (shoe repairer).

Adjective
1

made of or covered with wax

"waxen candles"

"careful, the floor is waxy"

2

easily impressed or influenced

"an impressionable youngster"

"an impressionable age"

"a waxy mind"

3

capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking

"a flexible wire"

"a pliant young tree"

4

having the paleness of wax

"the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor"

"the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him"

"a thin face with a waxy paleness"

5

Resembling wax in texture or appearance.

6

Angry.

Example Sentences
"waxen candles" adjective
"careful, the floor is waxy" adjective
"an impressionable youngster" adjective
"an impressionable age" adjective
"a waxy mind" adjective
"a flexible wire" adjective
"a pliant young tree" adjective
"the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor" adjective
"the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him" adjective
"a thin face with a waxy paleness" adjective
See Also
waxen ambergris sycoceryl sebaceous waxily adipocere angry cerosin
Related Terms
Antonyms
unimpressionable
Rhyming Words
maxy flaxy braxy ataxy eutaxy galaxy metaxy ataraxy agalaxy eupraxy epitaxy syntaxy distaxy biotaxy zootaxy topotaxy anthotaxy phototaxy radipraxy metagalaxy
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