waxy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective made of or covered with wax
    waxen.
    • waxen candles
    • careful, the floor is waxy
  2. adjective easily impressed or influenced
    impressible; impressionable.
    • an impressionable youngster
    • an impressionable age
    • a waxy mind
  3. adjective satellite capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking
    pliant; bendable; pliable.
    • a flexible wire
    • a pliant young tree
  4. adjective satellite having the paleness of wax
    waxen; waxlike.
    • 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

WordNet


Wax"y adjective
Definitions
  1. Resembling wax in appearance or consistency; viscid; adhesive; soft; hence, yielding; pliable; impressible. "Waxy to persuasion." Bp. Hall.

Webster 1913