waxy meaning and definition

WAXY adjective

Definition of waxy (adjective)

1. made of or covered with wax
   • "waxen candles"; "careful, the floor is waxy"
   • synonyms: waxen
2. easily impressed or influenced
   • "an impressionable youngster"; "an impressionable age"; "a waxy mind"
   • synonyms: impressible, impressionable
   • antonym: unimpressionable
3. capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking
   • "a flexible wire"; "a pliant young tree"
   • synonyms: bendable, pliable, pliant
4. having the paleness of wax
   • "the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor"- Bram Stoker; "the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him"; "a thin face with a waxy paleness"
   • synonyms: waxen, waxlike