Word Study
waxen
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective waxen has 2 senses
- waxen(a = adj.pert) waxy - made of or covered with wax; "waxen candles"; "careful, the floor is waxy"
- waxen(s = adj.all) waxlike, waxy - having the paleness of wax; "the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor"; "the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him"; "a thin face with a waxy paleness"
CIDE DICTIONARY
waxen, a.
- Made of wax. Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Covered with wax; waxed; as, a waxen tablet. [1913 Webster]
- Resembling wax; waxy; hence, soft; yielding. [1913 Webster]"Men have marble, women waxen, minds." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
waxen, adj.
1 having a smooth pale translucent surface as of wax.
2 able to receive impressions like wax; plastic.
3 archaic made of wax.
1 having a smooth pale translucent surface as of wax.
2 able to receive impressions like wax; plastic.
3 archaic made of wax.
THESAURUS
waxen
achromatic, achromic, anemic, ashen, ashy, blanched, bled white, bloodless, cadaverous, chloranemic, colorless, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, doughy, dull, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow, flat, ghastly, gray, haggard, hueless, hypochromic, lackluster, leaden, livid, lurid, lusterless, mat, mealy, muddy, neutral, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, sallow, sickly, tallow-faced, toneless, uncolored, wan, washed-out, weak, whey-faced, white
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