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English Dictionary: waxy by the DICT Development Group
2 results for waxy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
waxy
adj
  1. made of or covered with wax; "waxen candles"; "careful, the floor is waxy"
    Synonym(s): waxen, waxy
  2. easily impressed or influenced; "an impressionable youngster"; "an impressionable age"; "a waxy mind"
    Synonym(s): impressionable, waxy, impressible
    Antonym(s): unimpressionable
  3. capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; "a flexible wire"; "a pliant young tree"
    Synonym(s): bendable, pliable, pliant, waxy
  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"
    Synonym(s): waxen, waxlike, waxy
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Waxy \Wax"y\, a.
      Resembling wax in appearance or consistency; viscid;
      adhesive; soft; hence, yielding; pliable; impressible.
      [bd]Waxy to persuasion.[b8] --Bp. Hall.
  
      {Waxy degeneration} (Med.), amyloid degeneration. See under
            {Amyloid}.
  
      {Waxy kidney}, {Waxy liver}, etc. (Med.), a kidney or liver
            affected by waxy degeneration.
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