Waxen

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Made of or covered with wax.
  • adj. Pale or smooth as wax: waxen skin.
  • adj. Weak, pliable, or impressionable: waxen minds.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Grown.
  • v. Alternative past participle of wax.
  • adj. Made of wax; covered with wax.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to wax.
  • adj. Having the pale smooth characteristics of wax, waxlike, waxy.
  • adj. Easily effaced, as if written in wax.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Made of wax.
  • adj. Covered with wax; waxed.
  • adj. Resembling wax; waxy; hence, soft; yielding.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Made of wax; covered with wax: as, a waxen tablet.
  • Resembling wax; soft as wax; waxy.
  • Easily effaced, as if written in wax.
  • In zoology:
  • Being or consisting of wax: as, the waxen cells of honeycomb.
  • Like wax; waxy.
  • Waxed; having wax-like appendages: as, the waxen chatterer (the Bohemian waxwing).
  • An obsolete or archaic past participle of wax.
  • Archaic present indicative plural of wax.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. having the paleness of wax
  • adj. made of or covered with wax
  • Equivalent
    colorless    colourless   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    waxed    waxy    yielding   
    Verb Stem
    wax   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    waxy    wax-like    ashen    pasty    sallow    cadaverous    grayish    bloodless    leathery    greyish