waxy (adj.)

  1. made of or covered with wax; waxen candles; careful, the floor is waxy

    [ Syn: waxen ]

  2. easily impressed or influenced; an impressionable youngster; an impressionable age; a waxy mind

    [ Syn: impressionable , impressible ]

  3. capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; a flexible wire; a pliant young tree

    [ Syn: 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

    [ Syn: waxen , waxlike ]

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